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While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police in general. The collection redresses this imbalance. Investigating themes central to the history of detection, such as the inchoate distinction between criminals and detectives, the professionalisation of detective work and the establishment of colonial police forces, the book provides a the first detailed examination of detectives as an occupational group, with a distinct occupational culture. Essays discuss the complex relationship between official and private law enforcers and examine the ways in which the FBI in the U.S.A. and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany operated as instruments of state power. The dynamic interaction between the fictional and the real life image of the detective is also explored. Expanding on themes and approaches introduced in recent academic research of police history, the comparative studies included in this collection provide new insights into the development of both plain-clothes policing and law enforcement in general, illuminating the historical importance of bureaucratic and administrative changes that occurred within the state system.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... "FOUND DROWNED." Early on a calm summer morning, now many years ago, the naked body of a middle-aged man was discovered on the shore westward of Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, near a place called by the fantastical name of Egypt. The deceased's clothes were found at a short distance from the body, and the natural presumption was that he had been drowned whilst bathing. A valuable gold watch, and a purse containing a considerable sum of money, were safe in a pocket of his trousers; but no letters or papers that could lead to his identification were found. He was a stranger in the Wight, and it was soon ascertained that he had been Btopping for the previous three or four weeks at the Fountain Inn, West Cowes, where he was known as Mr. Jones. This misnomer was rectified by Mr. Hearne, a solicitor of Newport, who knew him to be James Blake, landlord of the Three Tuns, St. Giles's, London, and that he had come to the island in avoidance of his creditors, till such time as an offered composition should have been successfully carried out. Blake had consulted Mr. Hearne professionally, out of mere impatient restlessness of mind it seemed, and so far disclosed his position, as well as his real name; but it appearing that an attorney was acting for him in London, Mr. Hearne declined to interfere in the business. Blake having first tendered a fee, which was not accepted, went away, and was not seen again by the solicitor till, hearing of his death, Mr. Hearne presented himself before the inquest to identify the body, and state what he knew of the deceased. The verdict returned, after a slight, slovenly inquiry, was an open one--" Found drowned." The press, as it has done a thousand times beforo and since in much more important instances, remedied the...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.