The English Police: A Political and Social History

by Clive Emsley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138145306
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/10/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the HIstory of Crime and Criminal Justice.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

An examination of the English police in the last two centuries. Unlike most such studies, which focus on the London police, describes as well the autonomous developments in the provinces, and the sometimes quite different models used. Emsley (history, Open U.) looks from the top down at the relevant legislation and political action, and from the bottom up at who joined, what their tasks were, and how well they carried them out. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'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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