Clive Emsley

Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Shpayer-Makov, Haia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police in general. The collection redresses this imbalance. Investigating themes central to the history of detection, such as the inchoate distinction between criminals and detectives, the professionalisation of detective work and the establishment of colonial police forces, the book provides a the first detailed examination of detectives as an occupational group, with a distinct occupational culture. Essays discuss the complex relationship between official and private law enforcers and examine the ways in which the FBI in the U.S.A. and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany operated as instruments of state power. The dynamic interaction between the fictional and the real life image of the detective is also explored. Expanding on themes and approaches introduced in recent academic research of police history, the comparative studies included in this collection provide new insights into the development of both plain-clothes policing and law enforcement in general, illuminating the historical importance of bureaucratic and administrative changes that occurred within the state system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351910583
• Artikelnr.: 49398362

Autorenporträt

Professor Clive Emsley is from The Open University, UK. Professor Haia Shpayer-Makov is based at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: The police detective and policy history
Clive Emsley and Haia Shpayer-Makov; Early detection: the Bow Street runners in late 18th century London
J.M. Beattie; Tips
traps and tropes: catching thieves in post-revolutionary Paris
Howard G. Brown; From ex-con to expert: the police detective in 19th-century France
Clive Emsley; 'Crime does not pay': thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police
R.M. Morris; Explaining the rise and success of detective memoirs in Britain
Haia Shpayer-Makov; From sleuths to technicians? Changing images of the detective in Victoria
Dean Wilson and Mark Finnane; Local 'demons' in New Zealand policing c.1900-55
Graeme Dunstall; The image of the Gestapo: as revealed in retrospective surveys and interviews with ordinary Germans
Eric A. Johnson; 'Hard-headed
hard-bitten
hard-hitting and courageous men of innate detective ability...' From criminal investigation to political and security policing at end of Empire
1945-50
Georgina Sinclair; 'A negative and unwise approach': private detectives
vigilantes and the FBI counterintelligence
1910-72
John Drabble; Index.