Policing Western Europe
Subtitle: Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)
Contributors: Clive Emsley (Editor); Barbara Weinberger (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: October 30, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780313282195
Subjects: Police & security services; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Police Science; History - General History; History: World; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Criminology; Europe - General; General; History / Europe / General; History; Police
First sentence: Throughout the nineteenth century, police forces in much of Western Europe and the United States acquired new powers to fight crime and suppress disorder.