This collection of essays examines the growth of professionalization in national police forces in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
Investigating themes central to the history of detection, this book examines detectives as an occupational group, with a distinct occupational culture. It discusses the relationship between official and private law enforcers and examines the ways in which the FBI in the USA and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany operated as instruments of state power.
This wide-ranging work examines aspects of crime, punishment and criminal justice, from medieval Western Europe to modern-day Canada. The chapters also look at the evolution of police systems as societies urbanise and undergo population changes.
In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today.
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