Year: 2011
Type: other
Abstract: Public trust and police legitimacy in Great Britain: Short term effects and long-term processesBen Bradford and Jonathan Jackson Policing, in the sense of a set of social control processes, has existed in some form or other in all human societies.But the police -i.e. an organised body of people with a specific set of duties and responsibilities limited primarily to crime and the maintenance of order -is a product primarily of the last two or three centuries.Whether the inception of the police can be located in mid-18 th century Paris (where the lieutenant general de police commanded a force of around 3,000 men, see Emsley 2007: 65), the establishment of the London Metropolitan police in 1829, or elsewhere, what is certain is that within a relatively short space of time, the police became a preeminent state institution in most European countries -as indeed it has in nations across the globe.
Authors: Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson
Language: French
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W123943618