1st Edition

The Making of the Modern Police, 1780–1914, Part I Vol 1

    Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature.

    General Introduction, Introduction, Bibliography, Observations on Mr. Fielding’s Enquiry (1751), excerpts, A Plan for Preventing Robberies (1755), The Citizen’s Monitor (1780), excerpts, A Plan of Police (1781), excerpt, Observations on the Police (1784), excerpts, Desultory Reflections on Police (1785), excerpts, An Address to the Grand Jury (1785), excerpt, Establishing a System of Police (1786), excerpt, A Letter to Archibald MacDonald (1786), excerpts, Hints Respecting the Public Police (1786), excerpts, A General Plan of Parochial and Provincial Police (1787), excerpts, Some Hints Towards a Revisal of the Penal Laws (1787), excerpts, Regulations of Parochial Police (1797), excerpts, A General View of the National Police System (1799), excerpts, Observations on a Late Publication (1800), excerpts, Editorial Notes, List of Sources