Theories and Origins of the Modern Police

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at The Open University, UK

Contents: Introduction; Part I: Theory: Preventive principle of police, Charles Reith; Ideology as history: a look at the way some English police historians look at the police, Cyril D. Robinson; The demand for order in civil society: a review of some themes in the history of urban crime, police and riot, Allan Silver; The police and political development in Europe, David H. Bayley; Polizei, Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer. Part II: Policing Continental Europe: 'Police' and the formation of the modern state: legal and ideological assumptions on state capacity in the Austrian lands of the Habsburg empire, 1500-1800, Roland Axtmann; Fear and loathing in Bologna and Rome: the Papal police in perspective, Steven Hughes; The police of 18th-century France, Iain A. Cameron; The 'private army' of the tax farms: the men and their origins, Earl Robisheaux. Part III: Constables and Order in Early Modern England: The old-time constable as portrayed by the dramatist, A.M.P.; The English village constable, 1580-1642: the nature and dilemmas of the office, Joan Kent; Two concepts of order: justices, constables and jurymen in 17th-century England, Keith Wrightson. Part IV: Policing 18th-Century England: 'Civic' police and the condition of liberty: the rationality of governance in 18th-century England, Francis M. Dodsworth; Social police and the mechanisms of prevention: Patrick Colquhoun and the conditions of poverty, Mark Neocleous; Good men to associate and bad men to conspire: associations for the prosecution of felons in England, 1760-1860, David Philips; Sir John Fielding and the problem of criminal investigation in 18th-century England, John Styles; 'An imperfect, inadequate and wretched system'? Policing London before Peel, Ruth Paley; The military and popular disorder in England, 1790-1801, Clive Emsley; The Bank of England and the policing of forgery, 1797-1821, Randall McGowen; Name index.