English Police

Clive Emsley  is Professor of History at the Open University and President of the International Association for the HIstory of Crime and Criminal Justice.

• Introduction1. Policing before the police 2. The coming of the police 3. A police for Victorian England 4. Policing in Victorian England 5. Professionalisation, politics and public order 6. War, mutiny and peace 7. Policing mid-twentieth century England 8. Local bobby or state lackey? 9. A life in the force 10. The policeman as a workerConclusion: Constabulary, Gendarmerie and Haute PoliceAppendicesBibliographical noteIndex

'Set to become the new student text xxx; Here is a historian whose knowledge of English policing history over the whole of the period is second to none.'  British Journal of Criminology