Some American or English sociologist or criminologist has made a
remark which I paraphrase as follows: "The trouble with the
Anglo-American criminal justice system is that it was designed for a
bobby keeping order in an English village."

  My use of quotation marks here is just for convenience; these are
not the exact words of the remark, but very close -- they certainly
represent the meaning accurately.

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 12 Sep 2002 16:59 PDT

Was the answer you received last time incorrect?
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=5144
Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by trulyga-ga on 12 Sep 2002 18:06 PDT

I received many responses, but none of them were satisfactory answers:
what I need is the exact wording and a complete citation of the source
-- that's why I posted the question again, and doubled the amount I'm
ready to pay for a full, complete answer.

                             --trulyga-ga

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Clarification of Question by trulyga-ga on 03 Oct 2002 16:47 PDT

Larre-ga,

   You may well have seen the quotation used, or paraphrased, in
fiction; it's a natural for use in detective stories, legal thrillers,
and the like.  But I'm almost positive I saw it in a non-fiction
context, or at least attributed to an academic criminologist or
sociologist.  Thanks for your comment.

                       trulyga-ga

Trulyga,

I've run across this quote myself, separately from reading it here at
Google Answers. Like you, several years back, and my recollection is
scanty. I have a sneaking suspicion that -I- remember it vaguely from
popular fiction (something written last 10-15 years), rather than an
academic or nonfiction source, since I tend to skim that type of
reading and occasionally experience a similar difficulty identifying
origins of material absorbed in this manner. I read voraciously, too
many authors, genres, and subjects to even attempt a guess. I haven't
put any research into it at all. I'm not implying that the quote
itself is non-academic in nature, simply that it has been used in
popular literature, and might well be sourced there. This idea might
help tickle somebody else's memory or assist a GA colleague in
thinking 'outside the box' in a detailed search.

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