Making of the Modern Police, 1780–1914, Part II

Paul Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. He is the co-author of Crime and Justice 1750-1950 (Willan, 2005), History and Crime (Sage, 2007) and the editor of The New Police in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011). He has published widely on many aspects of crime and policing and has conducted archival research into policing in England, France and Germany. He directs the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. Janet Clark is a former doctoral student and researcher at the Open University and the author of The National Council for Civil Liberties and the policing of Interwar Politics: At Liberty to Protest (Manchester University Press, 2011) as well as numerous articles on public order policing in journals including Twentieth Century British History. Rosalind Crone is a Lecturer in the History Department at the Open University and a member of the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. Her work addresses the amusements and pastimes patronised by ordinary Londoners, the education of criminals in the nineteenth century and the history of reading. She has published articles on crime and policing in Historical Journal, Cultural and Social History and Journal of Victorian Culture. Haia Shpayer-Makov is a Professor of History at the University of Haifa and has published widely on many aspects of nineteenth-century police history. Key publications include The Making of a Policeman: The Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914 (Ashgate, 2002) and The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England (OUPress, 2011).

• volume 1 General Introduction, The ‘Idea’ of Policing, volume 2 Reforming the Police in the Nineteenth Century, volume 3 Policing the Poor, volume 4 Policing Entertainment, volume 5 Policing Public Order and Politics, volume 6 The Development of Detective Policing, Index