332 Pages
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Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. 'Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326' is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgments, A Note on Usage, Abbreviations, Introduction, Chapter 1: Police Power in the Italian Communes, Chapter 2: Police Discretion and Personal Autonomy, Chapter 3: The Logic of Third-Party Policing, Chapter 4: External Threats: Policing Out-Groups and Criminality, Chapter 5: Internal Threats: Policing Violence and Enmity, Chapter 6: The Social Impact of Third-Party Policing, Conclusion, About the author, Index
Biography
Gregory Roberts is a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. State Department and previously served as a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2013 and was a 2010-2011 Fulbright scholar in Italy.
