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Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
E-1 CRI01 The Ideal Policeman
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Herbert Reinke
Organizer: Joanne Klein Discussant: Wilbur Miller
Jonathan Dunnage : Representatives of the modern authoritarian state or agents of the ‘Revolution'? Constructions of the ideal policeman in fascist Italy
Based on an examination of police training manuals and journals, the paper analyses constructions of the ideal policeman under Mussolini’s dictatorship. Created around a number of ‘virtues’ and ‘principles’, including sacrifice, discipline, physical fitness, heroism, martyrdom, devotion to the nation, and defence of the community, the ideological use to which ... (Show more)
Based on an examination of police training manuals and journals, the paper analyses constructions of the ideal policeman under Mussolini’s dictatorship. Created around a number of ‘virtues’ and ‘principles’, including sacrifice, discipline, physical fitness, heroism, martyrdom, devotion to the nation, and defence of the community, the ideological use to which the ideal policeman was put reflected the fairly eclectic approach to the ‘fascistization’ of the police. Whilst in many cases these ‘descriptors’ were employed to create the image of policemen who were, above all, the agents of a modernized authoritarian state, in others they were used to model the Italian policeman on the ‘example’ and ‘sacrifice’ of soldiers of the Great War and squadristi of the fascist movement. The paper concludes by suggesting that the ideal policeman of the immediate post-war years continued to be constructed using the same ‘descriptors’ employed under fascism, though stripped of direct references to the previous regime. I argue that, if not a firm demonstration of the ‘fascistization’ of the Italian police, this is an illustration of the lasting cultural influence which fascism had on the police environment. (Show less)

Anja Johansen : Shaping the Perfect Policeman
Between national traditions, different institutional expectations and professional demands reflect an interesting array of priorities and attempts to overcome inherently conflictual demands on the police. On the basis of police manuals, the present paper looks at these expectations and demands to members of the Parisian gardien de la paix and ... (Show more)
Between national traditions, different institutional expectations and professional demands reflect an interesting array of priorities and attempts to overcome inherently conflictual demands on the police. On the basis of police manuals, the present paper looks at these expectations and demands to members of the Parisian gardien de la paix and the Berlin Schutzmann, to assess some of the political forces and dilemmas which shaped the professional image of the perfect policeman between 1870 and 1914. (Show less)

Joanne Klein : The Evolution of the Ideal English Constable: Portrayals in Police Instruction Books from the 19th century to the present
My paper is based on an in-depth study of English police instruction books and handbooks in order to explore the ideal images of law enforcement and police officers that were presented to recruits. With the founding of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829, these books first worked to create the ... (Show more)
My paper is based on an in-depth study of English police instruction books and handbooks in order to explore the ideal images of law enforcement and police officers that were presented to recruits. With the founding of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829, these books first worked to create the image of the modern English constable as the neutral upholder of the law that mirrored England’s nineteenth-century vision of its national values. The books then worked hard to preserve this image, which became increasingly difficult as law enforcement became more frantic with modern traffic and telephones. After World War II, efforts to persuade recruits into a proper mentality lost ground in instructions books to helping them cope with complex legal codes, the growing importance of public relations, and new means of both crime and policing using modern technology. Nevertheless, the image of the neutral upholder of law and order remained, even if the Victorian prose was gone. This paper will explore how instruction books reflected shifts in the ideal image of law enforcement from the founding of the first modern police force through the modern editions of instruction books. (Show less)

Haia Shpayer-Makov : France as the 'other' in public debates about law enforcement in Victorian England
In the long-standing controversy about police reform before the first organised police force was established in London 1829, France was the "other" against which English standards and ideals were commonly examined. Much has been written about the topic in this period. However, France continued to play this role until the ... (Show more)
In the long-standing controversy about police reform before the first organised police force was established in London 1829, France was the "other" against which English standards and ideals were commonly examined. Much has been written about the topic in this period. However, France continued to play this role until the end of the nineteenth century, principally in periods of heated public debates about law enforcement in England. This paper proposes to study how the references to France in this context in Victorian England shed light not only on what leading participants in these debates thought about the French system of criminal justice but also about their own. (Show less)



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