Clive Emsley (1944–2020)

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.… (more)

The legacy of the two World Wars, the Cold War and the wars that followed the break-up of Yugoslavia and the different experiences that different communities in different parts of Europe encountered are explored within this book. Also the ways in which the wars have been remembered in history, literature, music and various forms of visual media are looked at. Chapters include: War and national and political identities; War in twentieth-century Europe: cultural images, memories and monuments; Literature, memory and nation; Voicing protest: three responses to war in art music; War, cinema and society; Two total wars, the Cold War and postmodernism: the arts in Europe, 1910-2000; Europe and the cultural impact of the Holocaust; Dealing with dictatorship: socialism and the sites of memory in contemporary Hungary & Identity and managing the memory of war. Yugoslavia: a case study. Throughout the authors stress that, in addition to drawing on memory, these disciplines and artefacts can also reshape remembrance, both public and private, and reshape the self-image of combatant nations.… (more)