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The History of Policing: The History of Policing


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Globalising British Policing

Globalising British Policing

1st Edition

Edited By Georgina Sinclair
June 07, 2019

Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad policing models: a civil (English) and a semi-military (colonial) tradition. Until relatively recently colonial policing received considerably less ...

The History of Policing:  4-Volume Set

The History of Policing: 4-Volume Set

1st Edition

By Clive Emsley
April 05, 2011

In recent years the history of police and policing has become a key area of debate across a range of disciplines: criminology, sociology, political science and history. This authoritative series brings together the most important and influential English-language scholarship in the field, arranged ...

Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century

Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Chris A. Williams
March 28, 2011

Between the mid-nineteenth century and the present, the British police gained and to a large extent maintained a reputation as the 'best in the world', largely due to their ability to maintain order through consent rather than coercion. Much recent research, however, has pointed out that the label ...

The New Police in the Nineteenth Century

The New Police in the Nineteenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Paul Lawrence
March 28, 2011

The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, supposedly more efficient, forces were raised in their stead. Subsequently, the introduction of the 'New...

Theories and Origins of the Modern Police

Theories and Origins of the Modern Police

1st Edition

Edited By Clive Emsley
February 28, 2011

This volume is the first of four that will provide some of the most significant, English-language articles on the historical development of the police institution. The articles included in this volume are broadly of two kinds. The first introduce some of the theoretical outlines that have been ...

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