How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley addresses these questions and reveals that many ideas hailed as new in current debate on crime and i[...]
Probably no other single individual has had such a profound impact on the development of modern France and on that of nineteenth century Europe as Napoleon. Clive Emsley brings the subject up-to-date historiographically and provides an accessible introduction to the post revolutionary period in Euro[...]
A new edition of the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible history of crime in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.
Explores the value of criminal statistics, the significance of contemporary notions of class and gender in understanding and formulating the image of the criminal D[...]
The Victorians called him 'Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as 'the best police in the world'. If twenty-first century observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view[...]