An edition of Policing
(2001)
Policing
a short history
by Philip Rawlings
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Policing: A Short History (Policing and Society Series)
October 2001, Willan Publishing (UK)
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1
Police history 1
Policing history 5
2 From the blood feud to the justice of the peace: 600-1400 8
The blood feud 8
The function of the Anglo-Saxon laws: 600-1066 10
Law enforcement after the Conquest 13
The law-and-order crises in the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries 22
The early fifteenth century 25
3 Policing the poor and the bureaucratization of policing:
1400-1600 31
Communal policing in the early modern period 31
The detection of crime 39
The criminalization of the poor 44
Moral policing 51
4 The professionalization of policing: 1660-1800 61
'The real strength and riches of a country' 61
The London watch 64
Reform of the watch outside London 73
Private and quasi-public watch schemes 74
Detecting crime 76
Thief-taking 80
Detection and the magistracy 88
The certainty of speedy detection 92
5 The Jenny Darbies: the New Police 106
Crime and disorder in the early nineteenth century 106
Reform and the watch 107
Public order and detection 110
Robert Peel 113
The coming of the Jenny Darbies 117
Reception 119
Professional policing outside London 124
The borough police after 1835 129
The Rural Constabulary Act 1839 132
Quasi-public police 142
Popular reactions to the New Police 142
6 'In the midst of hordes of starving plunderers': 1850-1939 152
The terrors of a blue-coat's eye 152
Riot policing 162
The detectives 167
The science of detection in the early twentieth century 177
Drawing together 180
The Home Office 184
7 'The Foundations of law and order' 195
Post-war blues 195
The Royal Commission on the Police 1960 200
The continuing problems 207
Dealing with 'The Department' 210
The police and the politics of the 1980s and 1990s 212
Police protection 221
8 The long history of policing 231.
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