A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he 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. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Set to become the new student text xxx; Here is a historian whose knowledge of English policing history over the whole of the period is second to none.' British Journal of Criminology
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-582-25768-9 (9780582257689)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the HIstory of Crime and Criminal Justice.
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Open University, UK
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
