Reviews for Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

The average rating for Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-25 00:00:00 Vineeta Rao Crime, Police & Penal Policy - A Good Introduction to the history of Policing & Justice This excellent introduction to the history of crime, policing and penal policy has arisen from the academic career of Professor Clive Emsley, one of Britain's leading authorities on Policing and crime history in Britain and across Europe. As this book covers not just Britain but also offers a comparative history so that you can see how various systems of justice developed across Europe in particular ways, but at the same time does evaluate the systems and whether they worked for a particular country. He also shows where countries learnt from each other, sometime borrowing ideas. For those that are worried that this might be a heavy overly academic tome that the general reader should avoid like the plague, then you would be wrong. While it is academic, it is a book that is readable, is challenging to prior supposed knowledge and all readers will learn something from this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-26 00:00:00 Jaime Cooke Good history of the development of social democracy and fascism in 20th century Europe. Everyone on Twitter makes fun of "horseshoe theory," but it really is true that both of these ideologies have their roots in the revisionist socialism that emerged in opposition to orthodox Marxism. And the line between the two ideologies at least in their nascence was blurry. Of course then one of them wound up being responsible for the darkest chapter in world history, while the other went on to give Sweden and Norway and Denmark robust welfare states. Go figure.