Police Detectives in History, 1750–1950
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Author_Clive Emsley
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Bow Street Officers
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CID Officer
Colonial Administration
colonial policing systems
Communist Party USA
comparative detective work research
CPUSA
criminal investigation history
Dean Wilson
Demarcation Line
Detective Force
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Eric A. Johnson
FBI Agent
FBI Executive
Gendarmerie Nationale
Georgina Sinclair
Gestapo Officers
Graeme Dunstall
Green Ham
Haia Shpayer Makov
Hay Ward
Howard G. Brown
IRA Man
J.M. Beattie
John Drabble
Karl Heinz Reuband
law enforcement evolution
Mark Finnane
Nigeria Police
occupational culture policing
Police Intelligence Systems
Private Detective Agency
private security studies
R.M. Morris
Sir Thomas DeVeil
state surveillance analysis
Uniformed Patrolman
Young Men
Zealand Truth
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- ISBN 9780754639480
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Professor Clive Emsley is from The Open University, UK. Professor Haia Shpayer-Makov is based at the University of Haifa, Israel.
