A HISTORY OF POLICE AND MASCULINITIES, 17002010
This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.
It addresses an under-researched area of historical inquiry, providing the first in-depth study of how gender ideologies have shaped law enforcement and civic governance under old and new police models, tracing links, continuities and changes between them. The book opens up scholarly understanding of the ways in which policing reflected, sustained, embodied and enforced ideas of masculinities in historic and modern contexts, as well as how conceptions of masculinities were, and continue to be, interpreted through representations of the police in various forms of print and popular culture.
The research covers the UK, Europe, Australia and America and explores police typologies in different international and institutional contexts, using varied approaches, sources and interpretive frameworks drawn from historical and criminological traditions.
This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and those interested in gender, culture, police and criminal justice history as well as police practitioners.
David G. Barrie is lecturer in British history at The University of Western Australia. His research interests include crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. He is author of Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 17751865 (Willan, 2008), which was awarded best first book in Scottish history by the international committee of the Frank Watson Book Prize. He has published widely on Scottish policing in leading international journals.
Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor in history at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on early modern gender history. Most recently she is editor (with Jacqueline Van Gent) of Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Ashgate, 2011) and author (with Jennifer Spinks) of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Ashgate, 2011).
A HISTORY OF POLICE AND MASCULINITIES, 17002010
Edited by David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall
First published 2012
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A history of police and masculinities, 1700-2010 / edited by David G.
Barrie and Susan Broomhall.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-415-67129-3 (hbk.) ISBN 978-0-415-69661-6 (pbk.)
1. PoliceHistory. 2. PoliceSocial aspects. 3. Masculinity. I. Barrie,
David G. II. Broomhall, Susan.
HV7903.H57 2012
363.209dc23
2011027696
ISBN: 9780415671293 hbk
ISBN: 9780415696616 pbk
ISBN: 9780203141427 ebk
Typeset in Times New Roman by Prepress Projects, Perth, UK
CONTENTS
Susan Broomhall and David G. Barrie |
David Garrioch |
Matthew McCormack |
Susan Broomhall and David G. Barrie |
Simona Mori |
Francis Dodsworth |
Haia Shpayer-Makov |
Dean Wilson |
Guy Reel |
Joanne Klein |
Gerda W. Ray |
Marisa Silvestri |
CONTRIBUTORS
David G. Barrie is Lecturer in British history at The University of Western Australia. His research interests include crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. He is author of Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 17751865 (Willan Publishing, 2008). He has published widely on Scottish policing, governance and civil society and is currently writing a monograph (with Susan Broomhall) entitled Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Crime, Community and Control (contracted to Ashgate).
Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor in history at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on early modern gender history. Most recently, she is editor (with Jacqueline Van Gent) of Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Ashgate, 2011) and author (with Jennifer Spinks) of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Ashgate, 2011). She is currently writing a monograph (with David G. Barrie) entitled Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Crime, Community and Control (contracted to Ashgate).
Francis Dodsworth is a Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University, UK, where he is also a member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research. His work explores the history of security in the modern British city since c. 1700. He has also published on the histories of government and commercial architecture, and non-conformist religion.
David Garrioch is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. He has written on neighbourhood, class and policing in eighteenth-century Paris, on early modern European towns and on the Enlightenment. His most recent book is The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press, 2002). Current projects include a study of Protestants and religious toleration in eighteenth-century Paris, and a history of religious confraternities in Paris before the French Revolution.
Joanne Klein is Professor of History at Boise State University, Idaho, USA. Her publications include Invisible Men: the Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 19001939 (Liverpool University Press, 2010), Moving On, Men and the Changing Character of Interwar Working-Class Neighborhoods: from the Files of the Manchester and Liverpool City Police, Journal of Social History , vol. 38, no. 2 (2004) and Irregular Marriages: Unorthodox Working-Class Domestic Life in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester, Journal of Family History , vol. 30, no. 2 (2005). Her research focuses on the everyday lives of British police constables and working-class society.