Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland
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This book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the twentieth century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the experience of policing from a range of grassroots' perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the author identifies and explains the factors that led to not only co-operation, consensus and the building of trust, but also points of tension and conflict across a century of social, political and technological change.
Louise A. Jackson is Professor of Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of a wide range of books and articles on the history of gender, youth, criminal justice and policing in the UK Neil Davidson is currently employed by the Scottish Government Dr Linda Fleming is currently Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Scotland. David M. Smale served in the Royal Marines Band Service for 13 years. He Joined Lothian and Borders Police and served for 23 years, working in the City of Edinburgh and in the Scottish Borders. He studied with the Open University and the University of Edinburgh, where he also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a project concerning community policing. He has contributed chapters to books on the history of policing and written articles for academic journals and history magazines. He is the co-author of Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland (EUP, 2020). Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh