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.
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
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.
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.
This comprehensive history of policing from the 18th century onwards draws on largely unused police archives. The text addresses all the major issues of debate, and explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels.
Über den Autor
Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the HIstory of Crime and Criminal Justice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Klappentext
"This broad and comprehensive coverage of the history of the English police that includes its prehistory and takes us up to the present is set to become the new standard text. ... Within the historiography, Emsley places himself halfway between the traditionalists' account of progress enacted by far-seeing reformers and the radicals who regarded police legislation and powers as enactments in the interests of the ruling class. His book, he declares, is an attempt by a 'woolly liberal' to write a history of the police critical of the traditional Whig view but equally sceptical of the idea that the police can best be regarded as an instrument of class power. In this aim he succeeds admirably... Here is a historian whose knowledge of English policing history over the whole of the period is second to none."
So wrote Barbara Weinberger in the British Journal of Criminology of this distinguished book - the first comprehensive history of the origins and development of the police in England since the subject first began to be explored seriously by historians in the 1970s. Much of it is based on the rich and still largely unexplored archives which remain in police hands.
The bulk of the book charts the development of the modern police force chronologically, and considers policing from above. It explores the impact of legislation and political action on policing at both national and local levels, and investigates the claim that the English police were non-political and never subject to political control. In his final section, however, Clive Emsley examines policing from below, looking at the changing experience of police work and police life since the early nineteenth century. He discusses what kind of people joined police forces over the years, what their tasks were, and how successfully they achieved them. The book concludes with a discussion of what - if anything - distinguishes the English bobby from his European and North American counterparts.
This welcome Second Edition offers The English Police in paperback, and under the Longman imprint, for the first time. The text has been fully revised to take account of recent scholarship; the story has been updated to the end of 1995; and there is valuable statistical material in a new appendix.
"readable, well-informed and up-to-date... it supplements, and in many areas will replace, T.A.Critchley's History of Police in England and Wales as the standard text."
Stanley H. Palmer, Albion
"This is a scrupulously fair and well-reasoned account, enlivened and strengthened by Emsley's research on may local forces, his interviews with retired policemen, and his knowledge of the national and international context of police history. It will be welcomed and enjoyed by students, teachers and woolly liberals everywhere."
Stephen Inwood, London Journal
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CLIVE EMSLEY is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice.
