Quotes EXTRA Flashcards
‘model for most of the sovereigns of Europe’
Emsley
why was the force created?
Emsley
‘enabling men to rise in different careers by their own merits & talents rather than by birth, but patronage and who a man knew remained important’
Emsley
‘each political upheaval led to a change of personnel’
Emsley
‘make room for those with ideas more amenable to their own’
Emsley
‘amount of information sent to the Prefect by his agents, then, indeed, the paris police were efficient’
Emsley
‘apprehended by victims, the relatives of victims, or by people in the street’
Emsley
‘rough, sometimes violent and illegal ways’
Emsley
‘opportunities for profit for those policemen charged with the supervision of prostitutes and brothels
Emsley
‘five century decline in rates of violent crime’
Gillis
‘a broader interest in repressing ‘dangerous classes’… social protest and political challenge to the state’
Gillis
‘non-violent ways to settle disputes’
Gillis
‘expanded and intensified the integration and regulation of individuals by broader collectives
Gillis
‘reducing the capacity of the opposition to resist’
Gillis
‘maintenance of order’
Gillis
‘wholesale transferral of populations from rural to urban environments’
Giddens in Gillis
‘embedded in the social relation between the landed gentry and peasantry’
Hay in Gillis
‘a more formal and specific institutional one’
Gillis
‘inclination to redefine criminal behaviour as less serious’
Gillis
‘tendency to reduce charges in an effort to clear overburdened courts’
Gillis
‘obsession with decadence and crime ‘endured at all levels of French society’
Beirne
‘number of people living in urban areas in France almost tripled’
Gillis
‘specialist purveyor of the means of violence’
Giddens in Gillis
‘the presence of policemen’
Stead in Gillis
‘certainty of punishment’
‘giving it a greater capacity to deter’
Gillis
‘amplified informal public surveillance’
‘more visible’
Gillis
‘industrialisation produced more items to steal and urbanisation may have produced more opportunities to steal’
Gillis
‘crime was a social disease’
Weber
‘derived from an interest on the part of whatever elite was ruling in protecting itself’
Gillis
‘security of the state was always an essential element of policing’
Gillis
‘basis of surveillance was frequently the maintenance of the social and political order’
Gillis
‘where the principle authority was situated’
Emsley
‘had acquired an unenviable reputation for roughness and brutality’
Emsley
‘knew what the public wanted to read and consequently offered its readings thrilling, sensational stories’
Emsley
‘individuals who committed a variety of crimes / offences’
Emsley
‘most influential figures in Europe’
Piers Beirne
‘new prominence of crime in the description of urban life’
Piers Beirne
‘far more an influential factor than absolute poverty was the perturbing effect of inequality in wealth’
AQ in Beirne
‘largest consequences of the growth of the city’
Louis Chevalier
‘one of the most normal aspects of daily life’
Louis Chevalier
‘something ordinary and genuinely social’
Louis Chevalier
‘unwilling to assert a direct link’
Ruth Harris
‘anatomical study of the individual is still powerless in determining whether he has been or will become a villain’
Ruth Harris
‘social pathology rather than as an individual moral failing’
Ruth Harris
‘criminals had no conscience or moral sense’
Despine - Verplaetse
‘Lombroso saw him as a valuable predecessor’
Despine - Verplaetse
‘has met with the most commercial and critical success’
Andrea Goulet and Susanna Lee
‘juvenile delinquency became a widespread public concern’
‘deviant subculture’
Lenard R. Berlanstein
‘authorities of Paris most frequently incarcerated the isolated vagrant, charged simply with lacking a domicile and means of support. Begging was a frequent cause of prosecution. Together these offences accounted for 53% of all detentions during the mid 19th century’
Lenard R. Berlanstein
‘a failure of the rural people to adjust to the new urban environment’
Lenard R. Berlanstein
‘rests on no substantial foundatoin’
A. Lodhi and C. Tilly
‘french social critics of the time tended to believe’
A. Lodhi and C. Tilly
‘growing awareness that rural crime was far more prevalent in the C19th than has generally been conceded to date’
A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘urban growth doesn’t cause crime’
A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘criminal violence was as prevalent in the countryside as it was in the city’
A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘concur with Lodhi and Tilly’s verdict that French urban environments promoted property crime’
A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘fewer public places’
Stinchcome in A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘modernisation may have acted to promote criminality as much as to retard it’
A. Cohen and E. A. Johnson
‘absorbed into the very structure of the social order’
Ave-Lallement in A. Lindesmith and Y. Levin
‘police power remained relatively centralised - potentially a major weapon for ambitious ruling’
H. C. Payne
‘vast parts of the C19th France were inhabited by peasants’
E. Weber
‘the peasant is just that, sin, original sin, still persistent and visible in all its naive brutality’
E. Weber
‘early C19th folklorists were criticised for showing interest in the low class of population’
E. Weber
‘he is simply a savage’
E. Weber
‘police and judicial files offer an endless recital of fires, attributed to envy, resentment, spite, greed or sometimes, lightening’
E. Weber
‘whatever he was, he could only be bad’
E. Weber
‘violence was a fact of everyday life’
E. Weber
‘modernisation creation crime too’
E. Weber
‘taken a quarter century or more’
E. Weber
‘the concentration of private property, the good and alms the rich and pious distributed on regular days and hours’
E. Weber
‘400000 beggars and tramps in 1905’
Jules Meline
E. Weber
‘dangers of the city that enveloped rural districts in the romantic notion of a simpler, less fearful existence’
B. Martin
‘brutal but cunning peasant and the ruthless but degenerate urban swindler’
B. Martin
‘contemporary sociology to associate CPr with urban life and CPe with rural life’
B. Martin
‘greater degree of violence’
B. Martin
‘The police are part of a corrupt society. If mankind cannot be perfected, neither can the police’
B. Martin
‘Prefects, sub-prefects and mayors were ‘agents of government’’
H. C. Payne
‘maintain the security of the state’
H. C. Payne
‘complete surveillance was the essence of political police’
H. C. Payne
‘incompetence and lack of initiative among police personnel in the grades of commissaire and below were the subject of frequent complaints by the higher officials’
H. C. Payne
