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Policing Western Europe - Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Policing Western Europe - Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
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