The English Police

ISBN-13: 9780582257689 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 287 str.

Clive Emsley

Opis

This comprehensive history of policing from the 18th century onwards draws on largely unused police archives. The text addresses all the major issues of debate, explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. The final section of the book examines policing from below and the changing experience of police life since the 19th century.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Policing before the police
2. The coming of the police
3. A police for Victorian England
4. Policing in Victorian England
5. Professionalisation, politics and public order
6. War, mutiny and peace
7. Policing mid-twentieth century England
8. Local bobby or state lackey?
9. A life in the force
10. The policeman as a worker
Conclusion: Constabulary, Gendarmerie and Haute Police

Appendices

Bibliographical note

Index

O autorze

Clive Emsley  is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the HIstory of Crime and Criminal Justice.