A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010

David Barrie, Susan Broomhall, David G. Barrie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415696616
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136496639
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: History

This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.

It addresses an under-researched area of historical inquiry, providing the first in-depth study of how gender ideologies have shaped law enforcement and civic governance under 'old' and 'new' police models, tracing links, continuities, and changes between them. The book opens up scholarly understanding of the ways in which policing reflected, sustained, embodied and enforced ideas of masculinities in historic and modern contexts, as well as how conceptions of masculinities were, and continue to be, interpreted through representations of the police in various forms of print and popular culture.

The research covers the UK, Europe, Australia and America and explores police typologies in different international and institutional contexts, using varied approaches, sources and interpretive frameworks drawn from historical and criminological traditions.

This book will be essential reading for academics, students and those in interested in gender, culture, police and criminal justice history as well as police practitioners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The paternal government of men: the self-image and action of the Paris police in the eighteenth century
• 2 ‘A species of civil soldier’: masculinity, policing and the military in 1780s England
• 3 Making men: media, magistrates and the representation of masculinity in Scottish police courts, 1800–35
• 4 Becoming policemen in nineteenth-century Italy: police gender culture through the lens of professional manuals
• 5 Men on a mission: masculinity, violence and the selfpresentation of policemen in England, c. 1870–1914
• 6 Shedding the uniform and acquiring a new masculine image: the case of the late-Victorian and Edwardian English police detective
• 7 ‘Well-set-up men’: respectable masculinity and police organizational culture in Melbourne 1853–c. 1920
• 8 Of tabloids, detectives and gentlemen: how depictions of policing helped define American masculinities at the turn of the twentieth century
• 9 Quiet and determined servants and guardians: creating ideal English police officers, 1900–45
• 10 Science and surveillance: masculinity and the New York State Police, 1945–80
• 11 Managerial masculinity: an insight into the twenty-first-century police leader
• Bibliography
• Index