The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected.
Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development
and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law
enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks
to remedy this deficiency. Based on extensive archival research,
its central aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of the economic,
social, intellectual and political factors that shaped police
reform, development and policy in Scottish burghs during the 'Age
of Improvement'. The key issues addressed include: the workings of
traditional forms of law enforcement and why these were
increasingly deemed to be unsuitable by the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries; why, and in what ways, the pattern,
nature and origins of police development in urban Scotland differed
from elsewhere in Britain; in what ways the Scottish police model
compared and contrasted with other British models; the impact of
police reform on urban governance and the struggle between social
groups for control of the local state; the concerns and priorities
behind police policy. In addressing these questions, Police in the
Age of Improvement moves beyond many of the 'problem-response'
interpretations which have preoccupied many police historians, and
locates reform within the wider contexts of urban improvement,
municipal administration and Scottish Enlightenment thought. It
will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of
policing, urban management and social change in the late eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
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