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