The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing

By Williams, Kristian

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Title:	The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing
Author:	Williams, Kristian
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Political Science, Political Economy
Collections:	Authors Community, Politics
Historic Publication Date:	2003
Publisher:	Monthly Review Foundation

Member Page:	History Is A Weapon .org
Citation APA MLA Chicago Williams, B. K. (2003). The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Article from the Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Vol. 55, Issue 07, December 2003.

Summary
Why were the modern police created?…It is generally assumed, among people who think about it at all, that the police were created to deal with rising levels of crime caused by urbanization and increasing numbers of immigrants.…Despite its initial plausibility, the idea that the police were invented in response to an epidemic of crime is, to be blunt, exactly wrong. Furthermore, it is not much of an explanation. It assumes that “when crime reaches a certain level, the ‘natural’ social response is to create a uniformed police force. This, of course, is not an explanation but an assertion of a natural law for which there is little evidence.”