Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland / / Neil Davidson, David M. Smale, Richard Sparks, Louise A. Jackson, Linda Fleming.

The first social history of Scottish policing since 1900Geographical coverage of both rural and urban areas (including the Highlands and Islands as well as the Glasgow conurbation)Focuses on social identities and the dynamics shaping police-community relationships across timeContextualises Scottish...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
List of Figures and Tables --
Acknowledgements --
List of Abbreviations --
1 Introduction --
2 Governance --
3 The Glasgow Beat Man --
4 Specialist and Plainclothes Policing --
5 Policing the Rural --
6 Women in Scottish Policing --
7 Concluding the Twentieth Century --
Appendix --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:The first social history of Scottish policing since 1900Geographical coverage of both rural and urban areas (including the Highlands and Islands as well as the Glasgow conurbation)Focuses on social identities and the dynamics shaping police-community relationships across timeContextualises Scottish experience in relation to broader comparative frameworksIncludes much content not previously covered from a Scottish perspectiveThe first UK study to compare the practices, cultures and repertoires of uniform policing in urban and rural areas in the 1940s-70sThis book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the experience of policing from a range of grassroots’ perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the author identifies and explains the factors that led to not only co-operation, consensus and the building of trust, but also points of tension and conflict across a century of social, political and technological change.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474446655
9783110780413
DOI:10.1515/9781474446655
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Neil Davidson, David M. Smale, Richard Sparks, Louise A. Jackson, Linda Fleming.