Police forces [electronic resource] : a cultural history of an institution / Klaus Mladek, editor.

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 soc...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Mladek, Klaus
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Studies in European culture and history.
Subjects:	Police > History. Social control > History. Police. Social control. History.