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The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticised for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, this book traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past. It examines the historical development of the various bodies, individuals, and officials who carried these out in different societies, in Europe and European colonies, but also with reference to countries such as ancient Egypt, China, and the USA.

Introduction: crime and the law -- The statistical map -- Class perceptions -- Ethnicity and gender -- Perceptions of place -- Fiddles, perks and pilferage -- The criminal class and perceptions of criminals -- Prosecutors and the courts -- Detection and prevention: the old police and the new -- Punishment and reformation -- Concluding remarks

"Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War. Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are, in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However, the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create a detective division of the British Army's Military Police (SIB), and the use of British civilian police, alongside American police, as Civil Affairs Officers to restore order and civil administration. Part One follows the men of the SIB from their pre-war careers to confrontations with mafiosi and their investigations into widespread organised crime and war crimes during which they were constantly hampered by being seen as a Cinderella service commanded by 'temporary gentlemen'. Part Two focuses on the police officers who served in Civil Affairs who tended to come from higher ranks in the civilian police than those who served in SIB. During the war they occupied towns with the assault troops, and then sought to reorganise local administration; at the end of the war in the British Zones of Germany and Austria they sought to turn both new Schutzmñner and police veterans of the Third Reich into British Bobbies. Using memoirs and anecdotes, Emsley critically draws on the subjective experiences of these police personnel, assessing the successes of these wartime efforts for preventing and investigating crimes such as theft and profiteering and highlighting the importance of historical precedent, given current difficulties faced by international policing organizations in enforcing democratic police reform in post-conflict societies."--Bloomsbury Publishing

part PART I THEORY -- chapter 1 Charles Reith (1943), 'Preventive Principle of Police', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 34, pp. 206-209. -- chapter 2 Cyril D. Robinson (1979), 'Ideology as History: A Look at the Way Some English Police Historians Look at the Police', Police Studies, 2, pp. 35-49. -- chapter 3 Allan Silver (1967), 'The Demand for Order in Civil Society: A Review of Some Themes in the History of Urban Crime, Police, and Riot', in D.J. Bordua (edition), The Police: Six Essays, New York: Wiley, pp. 1-24. -- chapter 4 David ?. Bayley (1975), 'The Police and Political Development in Europe', in Charles Tilly (edition), The Formation of the National States in Western Europe, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 328-79. -- chapter 5 Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer (1980), ' Polizei', Economy and Society, 9, pp. 172-96. -- part PART II POLICING CONTINENTAL EUROPE -- chapter 6 Roland Axtmann (1992), ' -- chapter 7 Steven Hughes (1987), 'Fear and Loathing in Bologna and Rome: The Papal Police in Perspective', Journal of Social History, 21, pp. 97-116. -- chapter 8 Iain A. Cameron (1977), 'The Police of Eighteenth-Century France', European Studies Review, 7, pp. 47-75. -- chapter 9 Earl Robisheaux (1973), 'The -- part PART III CONSTABLES AND ORder IN EARLY MOderN ENGLAND -- chapter 10 ?.?.P. (1981), 'The Old-Time Constable as Portrayed by the Dramatists', Police Journal, 2, pp. 656-73. -- chapter 11 Joan Kent (1981), 'The English Village Constable, 1580-1642: The Nature and Dilemmas of the Office', Journal of British Studies, 20, pp. 26-49. -- chapter 12 Keith Wrightson (1980), 'Two Concepts of Order: Justices, Constables and Jurymen in Seventeenth-Century England', in John Brewer and John Styles (eds), An Ungovernable People: The English and the Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, London: Hutchinson, pp. 21-46. 312-15. -- part PART IV POLICING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND -- chapter 13 Francis ?. Dodsworth (2004) ' -- chapter 14 Mark Neocleous (2000), 'Social Police and the Mechanisms of Prevention: Patrick Colquhoun and the Condition of Poverty', British Journal of Criminology, 40, pp. 710-26. -- chapter 15 David Philips (1989), 'Good Men to Associate and Bad Men to Conspire: Associations for the Prosecution of Felons in England 1760-1860', in Douglas Hay and Francis Snyder (eds), Prosecution and Punishment in Britain 1750-1850, Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. 113-70. -- chapter 16 John Styles (1983), 'Sir John Fielding and the Problem of Criminal Investigation in Eighteenth-Century England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 33, pp. 127-19. -- chapter 17 Ruth Paley (1989), ' -- chapter 18 Clive Emsley (1983), 'The Military and Popular Disorder in England 1790-1801', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 61, pp. 10-12, 96-112. -- chapter 19 Randall McGowen (2005), 'The Bank of England and the Policing of Forgery 1797—1821', Past and Present, No. 186, pp. 81-116.

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

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.