Books in the The History of Policing series

Demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad policing models: a civil (English) and a semi-military (colonial) tradition.

Reprints a series of the articles which deal with: the ways that police organisation was structured and reformed; the nature of the policing task in this period; who carried this task out (with particular attention to the arrival of policewomen); and, some of the crises and ongoing areas of concern which they faced.

The introduction of the 'New Police' has been represented as a watershed in the development of the systems of policing we know today. But just how sweeping were the changes made to the maintenance of law and order during the nineteenth century? This title shows a process which, while cumulatively dramatic, was also at times protracted.

Provides some of the most significant articles on the historical development of the police institution. This title introduces some of the theoretical outlines that have been suggested for the origins and development of modern police institutions across Europe.

Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad policing models: a civil (English) and a semi-military (colonial) tradition. Until relatively recently colonial policing received considerably less scholarly attention than the policing of mainland Britain. This volume comprises four sections: section I considers works on British colonial policing up until the Second World War; section II moves to post-war colonial policing through the era of decolonisation; section III looks more closely at the policing of Northern Ireland, and, section IV shows how the meshing of these policing systems are currently contributing to the globalisation of British policing today.

The history of police and policing has become a key area of debate across a range of disciplines: criminology, sociology, political science and history. This title brings together the most important and influential English-language scholarship in the field, arranged chronologically across four volumes.