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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled. The state's response to this situation of transformation can be analysed through the prism of the police. Informally or not, police systems adapt their regulatory frameworks, their structures and their practices in order to respond risks, new threats and new rules. This process, which is mostly of a contemporary nature, is also deeply historic. Analysing it on the long run is therefore particularly relevant. From the late nineteenth-century until the second half of the twentieth-century, Policing New Risks in Modern European History provides a panorama of political and police reactions to the 'risks' of societal change in a Western European perspective, focusing on Belgium, France, and The Netherlands, but also colonial perspectives.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Xavier Rousseaux is Research Director at the National Funds for Scientific Research, FRS-FNRS, Belgium, and Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Centre for Law and Justice History, Belgium. Working on the history of crime and justice, he is coordinating the IAP Network 7/22 (Belgian Science Policy), 'Justice & Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective, 1795-1950'. He recently published 'A History of Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe' , in S. Body-Gendrot et al's, Handbook of European Criminology (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policing New Risks in Modern European History
Editors: Jonas Campion, Xavier Rousseaux
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137544025
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54401-8Published: 13 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54402-5Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 106
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, European History, Modern History, Policing