The Making of the Modern Police, 1780-1914, Part I

ISBN-13: 9781848933712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 1232 str.

Paul Lawrence;Francis Dodsworth;Robert M. Morris

Opis

The modern professional police force is probably one of Britain's most significant exports. In little over a century, Britain went from having a largely amateur and local law enforcement system to the type of police force we still recognize today. The first modern police force of its kind, it has become the model which has been copied and adapted across the world. This is not a story of unbroken progress. Newer methods of policing challenged English ideas of liberty and were greeted with distrust. Over time changing social conditions, particularly with the rise of large industrial cities, led to a growing acceptance of the need for new systems of law and order. Eventually the modern police force came in to being as part of a broader process of the centralization and professionalization of government during the nineteenth century. Over six themed volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature.

O autorze

Robert M Morris