This book provides the first serious look at the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. Looking at how the model was first developed in France and then exported across Europe, Emsley argues that gendarmes played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas.

Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe

History

EMSLEY, CLIVE

Europe

Oxford University Press

The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized 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, A Short History of Police and Policing traces theevolution 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. By demonstrating that policing was never the exclusive dominion of the police, and that the institution of the police, as we know it today, is a relatively recent creation, Professor Emsley explores the idea and reality of policing, and shows how an institution we now call 'thepolice' came to be virtually universal in our modern world.

A Short History of Police and Policing

Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley attempts to address these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment.The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and criminals were neither linear nor circular, and demonstrating clearly that many ideas hailed as new by contemporary politicians and in current debate on crime and its 'solutions', have a very long and illustrious history.

The belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars, as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of peace, as brutalised veterans are released on to a labour market reorganising for peace, has a long pedigree in Britain. But it has rarely been examined critically and scarcely at all for the period of the two world wars of the twentieth century. This is the first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after these wars. Its particular focus is the two world wars but, recognising the concerns and the problems voiced in recent years about veterans of the Falklands, the Gulf wars, and the campaign in Afghanistan, Clive Emsley concludes his narrative in the present.

Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914

How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley addresses these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment. The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and criminals were neither linear nor circular, and demonstrating clearly that many ideas hailed as new by contemporary politicians and in current debate on crime and its 'solutions', have a very long and illustrious history.

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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The English Police: A Political and Social History

Criminal Law

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This collection of essays examines the growth of professionalization in national police forces in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The period covered begins at the point where police forces had been established on some sort of a national scale. The essays are concerned with perceptions of both rulers and ruled, and perceptions of the role and function of the police in established industrial and urbanized societies. They also deal with the ways in which different police forces expanded and developed over time, and with the effect of this expansion and development on police organization and strategy.
During the period covered in the book, all the countries of Western Europe were confronted with similar, essentially political challenges. Industrialization and urbanization created new and alarming environments and appeared to foster new and menacing social groups, from the dangerous classes lurking within the unskilled urban working class, to the more tangible organizations created by labor. Socialism and fascism provided the European states with new ideologies and ideologues to confront or to support--and world war, involving mass mobilization on the home as well as the battle fronts, was seen to require a further extension of the role of the state. In a crisis, central government must ensure its command over its forces of coercion and its sources of information--it was then that the police became most openly the executive area of government. As the trend toward central control intensified, so did the trend toward professionalization. By examining the evolution of the police in five societies, the authors provide valuable analyses of the ways police forces differed from one another, the ways in which they approached their tasks, and how they developed their respective self-images. This collection will be of considerable use to scholars and students involved in research on modern European history and criminology.

Policing Western Europe: Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Weinberger, Barbara

Praeger

When is a crime a crime―or an act condoned by a significant portion of society? When is a criminal a criminal―or a revolutionary or a national hero? As the chapters in this collection make clear, what constitutes criminal activity varies, to a degree, among different societies and at different moments in a society's history. In this wide-ranging work, major historians of criminology and penology examine aspects of crime and criminal justice from medieval Western Europe to modern day Canada.
In addition to examining crime, the judicial system, and punishment in various societies, the chapters look at the evolution of police systems as societies urbanize and undergo population changes. Together these chapters look at many key questions concerning the modern study of criminal behavior. As such, the volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of the history of crime.

Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815

Macmillan

extremely rare,very good condition

Policing and Its Context 1750-1870 (Themes in Comparative History)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

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Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe

A Short History of Police and Policing

Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914

Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

The English Police: A Political and Social History

Policing Western Europe: Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815

Policing and Its Context 1750-1870 (Themes in Comparative History)