Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53846-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Studies in European Culture and History

This collection focuses on the cultural history of the police as an institution from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Contrary to most studies on the law and the state, Police Forces demonstrates how profoundly modern democracies are enveloped by more informal and less codified modes of social control. In a time when the rule of law appears to be on the retreat, 'police studies' emerges as a field in its own right. This volume helps stake out this new discipline, including the intricate link between police and the law, 'might' and 'right,' state violence, surveillance technologies, politics and resistance. Police Forces considers the question of law and order from below: alleyways, borders, police stations, law offices, bureaucracies, and the minds of administrators, in which the quotidian workings of the law unfold.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mladek, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Police versus Politics; K.Mladek War-A Fortuitous Occasion for social Disciplining and Political Centralization? The Case of Bavaria under Maximilian I; S.Haude State Desire. On the Epoch of Police; J.Vogl Is it useful to deceive the people? Secrecy and Deception as Political Resources; M.Schweska A City Tracks a Murderer: Mass Murder and Mass Public in Weimar Germany; T.Herzog Nurturing the New Republic; S.Hall How Fat Detectives Think; S.Gilman 'Passer à l'acte': Policing in the Office. Notes on Industry Standards and the Große Polizeiausstellung of 1926; S.Spieker Hitchcock's Truth or Why The Wrong Man is not a Suspense Film; H.von.Herrmann Exception Rules: Contemporary Political Theory and the Police; K.Mladek Police, Paranoia, and Theater in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland; M.Puchner A Critique of Community Policing; W.Lyons

Über Autor(innen)

KLAUS MLADEK is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.