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

Clive Emsley

Criminal Law

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815

Macmillan

Age of Revolutions (Course A202)

Open UP

Age of Revolutions: Napoleon; Restoration Europe Unit 7-8 (Course A202)

Open University

<p>This widely used book, first published in 1987, examines changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society. Challenging the simplistic view of crime as the work of a criminal class, and changes in the justice system as solely due to humanitarian reformers, it also takes issue with analyses which explain crime patterns wholly in terms of the economic cycle. Recent growth in women's history has helped shift interest from property crime to violent crime, and a main feature of this extensively reworked Second Edition is an entirely new chapter on crime and gender.</p>

Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (Themes in British Social History)

History

Americas

Longman Pub. Group

Conflict and stability in Europe ([Open University set book])

Open University Press

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf

The Impact of World War Two (AA312 Total War and Social Change: Europe 1914-1945)

Open University Worldwide

War, Culture and Memory

Europe

OPEN UNIVERSITY EDU

This two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resisting--and thus molding the controls under which they functioned. In both volumes, an introduction outlines the origins and the continuing value of the concept of social control. The introductions are followed by two substantive sections. The essays in part one of volume I focus on the interplay of ecclesiastical institutions and the emerging states; those in part two of volume I look more explicitly at discipline from a bottom-up perspective. The essays in part one of volume 2 explore the various means by which communities--generally working-class communities--in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Europe were subjected to forms of discipline in the workplace, by the church, and by philanthropic housing organizations. It notes also how the communities themselves generated their own forms of internal control. Part two of volume 2 focuses on various policing institutions, exploring in particular the question of how liberal and totalitarian regimes differed in their styles of control, repression, and surveillance.

Social Control in Europe, Vol. 2: 1800-2000 (History of Crime and Criminal Justice)

Eric Johnson

Pieter Spierenburg

Ohio State University Press

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