Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Representations of the Police
1: Mythologized Founding Fathers
2: Popular Culture
3: Public Opinion
Part II: Historical Setting
4: 1870-1914
5: 1918-1945
6: 1946-2000
Part III: The Republic and its Police
7: Police and Justice
8: Police-Military Relations
9: Police Politics
10: Inequalities of Policing
11: Controversies
Part IV:
12: Political Police
13: Municipal police
14: Modernisation - the Early Phase
15: Police and violence
16: Accountability
17: Private Security Services
18: Internationalization of Policing
Part VI: Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Malcolm Anderson has held teaching posts in four UK universities and temporary teaching/research posts in France, Austria, Greece, Canada, and the United States. He was Senior Fellow of the Centre of European Policy Studies until 2003 where he directed the programme of Justice and Home Affairs. He has been an expert/consultant on many occasions including for the French Planning Commission, the House of Lords, the European Commission, and the Negotiation Support
Unit for the Middle East Peace Process. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh.