From the blood feud to the justice of the peace: 600-1400 -- Policing the poor and the bureaucratization of policing: 1400-1600 -- The professionalization of policing: 1600-1800 -- The Jenny Darbies: the new police -- 'In the midst of hordes of starving plunderers': 1850-1939 -- 'The foundations of law and order' -- The long history of policing
Summary
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 t
