NCJ Number
133743
Editor(s)
C Emsley,
B Weinberger
Date Published
1991
Length
265 pages
Annotation
These essays provide an historical perspective on certain aspects of policing in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The issues discussed here include the perceptions of ruled and rulers toward the functions of police forces, and role of the police in established industrial and urbanized societies, the ways in which different police forces expanded over time, and the effect of this expansion on the development of police organization and strategy.
Abstract
Three broad areas -- politics, professionalism, and public order -- have been chosen to focus on issues central to the exploration of policing in Europe from the mid-19th century. Politics here refers to the interrelationships between police and government and the indirect impact of political events on police development. One essay compares urban policing in England and France, while another explores policing and the administration of justice in Ireland during this period. Essays discussing police forces in France's Third Republic, Imperial Germany, Britain, and Ireland examine how these different forces developed their own self-image and claimed special skills as part of their professional mystique. The recognition of different police forces which accompanied major public order crises tended to become a permanent feature of that force even when the crisis had passed; several essays discuss this aspect of policing in England, France, and the Netherlands in the interwar years; Weimar Germany; and Nazi Germany. Chapter references