Policing
Subtitle: a short history
By: Philip Rawlings.
Series: Policing and society series
Publisher: Willan Pub.; Willan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cullompton, Devon, UK; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Police -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: Police history 1; title: Policing history 5; title: 2 From the blood feud to the justice of the peace: 600-1400 8; title: The blood feud 8; title: The function of the Anglo-Saxon laws: 600-1066 10; title: Law enforcement after the Conquest 13; title: The law-and-order crises in the thirteenth and fourteenth; title: centuries 22; title: The early fifteenth century 25; title: 3 Policing the poor and the bureaucratization of policing:; title: 1400-1600 31; title: Communal policing in the early modern period 31; title: The detection of crime 39; title: The criminalization of the poor 44; title: Moral policing 51; title: 4 The professionalization of policing: 1660-1800 61; title: 'The real strength and riches of a country' 61; title: The London watch 64; title: Reform of the watch outside London 73; title: Private and quasi-public watch schemes 74; title: Detecting crime 76; title: Thief-taking 80; title: Detection and the magistracy 88; title: The certainty of speedy detection 92; title: 5 The Jenny Darbies: the New Police 106; title: Crime and disorder in the early nineteenth century 106; title: Reform and the watch 107; title: Public order and detection 110; title: Robert Peel 113; title: The coming of the Jenny Darbies 117; title: Reception 119; title: Professional policing outside London 124; title: The borough police after 1835 129; title: The Rural Constabulary Act 1839 132; title: Quasi-public police 142; title: Popular reactions to the New Police 142; title: 6 'In the midst of hordes of starving plunderers': 1850-1939 152; title: The terrors of a blue-coat's eye 152; title: Riot policing 162; title: The detectives 167; title: The science of detection in the early twentieth century 177; title: Drawing together 180; title: The Home Office 184; title: 7 'The Foundations of law and order' 195; title: Post-war blues 195; title: The Royal Commission on the Police 1960 200; title: The continuing problems 207; title: Dealing with 'The Department' 210; title: The police and the politics of the 1980s and 1990s 212; title: Police protection 221; title: 8 The long history of policing 231.