Policing: A short history - A short history (Paperback)

This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing: a short history moves away from a focus on the origins of the 'new police', and concentrates rather on broader (but much neglected) patterns of policing. How was there a shift from communal responsibility to policing? What has been expected of the police by the public and vice versa? How have the police come to dominate modern thinking on policing? The book shows how policing - in the sense of crime control and order maintenance - has come to be seen as the work which the police do, even though the bulk of policing is undertaken by people and organisations other than the police. This book will be essential reading for anybody interested in the history of policing, on how differing perceptions emerged on the function of policing on the part of the public, the state and the police, and in today's intense debates on what the police do.

General

Imprint:	Willan Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2002
Authors:	Philip Rawlings
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-903240-26-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-903240-26-3
Barcode:	9781903240267

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