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Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government
publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the
development of the first modern police force. It will be of
interest to social and political historians, criminologists and
those interested in the development of the detective novel in
nineteenth-century literature.
Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government
publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the
development of the first modern police force. It will be of
interest to social and political historians, criminologists and
those interested in the development of the detective novel in
nineteenth-century literature.
Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government
publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the
development of the first modern police force. It will be of
interest to social and political historians, criminologists and
those interested in the development of the detective novel in
nineteenth-century literature.
Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government
publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the
development of the first modern police force. It will be of
interest to social and political historians, criminologists and
those interested in the development of the detective novel in
nineteenth-century literature.
While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable
research, the historical study of police detectives has been
largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a
brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police
in general. The collection redresses this imbalance. Investigating
themes central to the history of detection, such as the inchoate
distinction between criminals and detectives, the
professionalisation of detective work and the establishment of
colonial police forces, the book provides a the first detailed
examination of detectives as an occupational group, with a distinct
occupational culture. Essays discuss the complex relationship
between official and private law enforcers and examine the ways in
which the FBI in the U.S.A. and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany
operated as instruments of state power. The dynamic interaction
between the fictional and the real life image of the detective is
also explored. Expanding on themes and approaches introduced in
recent academic research of police history, the comparative studies
included in this collection provide new insights into the
development of both plain-clothes policing and law enforcement in
general, illuminating the historical importance of bureaucratic and
administrative changes that occurred within the state system.
The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the
wider public, and the English police detective has been a special
focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much
has been written in the last three decades about the history of
uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on
police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by
exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English police
detectives during the formative period of their profession, from
1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed
detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
The book starts by illuminating the detectives' socioeconomic
background, how and why they became detectives, their working
conditions, the differences between them and uniformed policemen,
and their relations with the wider community. It then goes on to
trace the factors that shaped their changing public image, from the
embodiment of 'un-English' values to plebeian knights in armour,
investigating the complex and symbiotic exchange between detectives
and journalists, and analysing their image as it unfolded in the
press, in literature, and in their own memoirs.
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