Policing and War in Europe marks a new departure in Criminal Justice History. These seven chapter essays, together with the reviews of twelve major works in the area, establish the series as a major forum for exploring new areas of research in the criminal justice area in its historical, criminological, legal, and social aspects. Common themes and issues that emerge from the study of policing and warring from the perspectives of both the nation state and the local community are explored.Elaine Reynolds and Barry Godfrey examine the daily work of nightwatchmen, and private and public police in bringing order to the streets in times of peace and war. Mark Clapson and Clive Emsley examine the problem of the policeman's image in the culture of his community, and Richard Ireland illustrates how scientific advances in crime detection brought the stereotyping of criminals rather than their arrest and conviction. Michael Broers and David Smith reveal the dramatic impact that world war brought to the problem of policing occupied territory, while Simon Kitson demonstrates the dangers that can occur when the civilian police are used to invigilate racist policies of a totalitarian regime. An important resource for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with legal, political, and military history, criminal justice studies, sociology and criminology, and criminal law.

PrefaceIntroduction by Louis A. KnaflaSir John Fielding, Sir Charles Whitworth, and the Westminster Night Watch Act, 1770-1775 by Elaine A. ReynoldsWar Crime in Napoleonic Italy, 1800-1814: Regeneration, Imperialism, and Resistance by Michael BroersThe Felon and the Angel Copier: Criminal Identity and the Promise of Photography in Victorian England and Wales by Richard W. IrelandPrivate Policing and the Workplace: The Worsted Committee and the Policing of Labor in Northern England, 1840-1880 by Barry GodfreyStreet, Beat, and Respectability: The Culture and Self-Image of the Late Victorian and Edwardian Urban Policeman by Mark Clapson and Clive EmsleyFrench Police, German Troops, and the Destruction of the Old District of Marseille, 1943 by Simon KitsonTrusted Servants of the Population: The Public Safety Branch and the German Police in the British Zone of Germany by David Smith