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- Title
Police in civil society: police, Enlightenment and civic virtue in urban Scotland, c. 1780-1833.
- Authors
BARRIE, DAVID
- Abstract
Based on how notions of civil society and civic virtue were defined in Enlightenment Scotland, this article assesses how far these ideals shaped police development in Scottish towns, c. 1780-1833. It argues that both concepts provided a framework for the development of 'police' as a broad mechanism of urban government. Collectively, civil society and civic virtue offered a wide-ranging, intellectual backdrop presupposing ideas on police, improvement and polite society, with the new police model bearing a striking resemblance to how these ideals were imagined and constructed at the time.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; UNITED Kingdom; POLICE; ENLIGHTENMENT; CRIMINAL justice system; CIVIL society; RULE of law; SOCIAL development; SOCIAL processes; SOCIAL change; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Urban History, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926810000064