Contents
1 Introduction
Introduction
The Scottish experience
A curious neglect
Research focus and its historiographical context
The ‘police’ concept in Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2 Policing before the police: law enforcement in the late eighteenth century
Introduction
Constables, town officers and magistrates
Urban challenges and policing initiatives
Watching and warding
Prosecution and the local courts
Godly discipline
Conclusion
3 Politics, pressures and policing initiatives: Glasgow in the Age of Enlightenment, 1779–1800
Introduction
Early initiatives and proposals, 1779–88
The politics of reform, 1789–92
The fall and rise of policing in Glasgow, 1793–1800
The influence and legacy of Patrick Colquhoun
Ideas and Enlightenment
Conclusion
4 Urban challenges and new expectations: police origins and the pattern of adoption, 1800–32
Introduction
Urban growth and the pattern of adoption, 1800–32
Crime, disorder and professionalisation
Urban improvement
Expanding the municipal machine
Conclusion
5 Conflict and consensus: framing the model of urban management, 1800–32
Introduction
Conflict and conciliation
An uneasy consensus?
Urban democracy in civil society
Conclusion
6 Pioneers in police? The police model and its historical significance, 1800–33
Introduction
Structure, organisation and significance
Links with the past
Post-war tensions, reform and improvement
Conclusion
7 National legislation and the state of burgh policing at mid century, 1833–62
Introduction
National burgh statutes, 1833–62
County developments, 1839–57
Scottish burgh policing at mid century
Conclusion
8 Policing the Scottish city, 1800–48
Introduction
Vagrancy and the urban poor
Pastimes, behaviour and morality
Crowd control, industrial militancy and political policing, 1821–48
Conclusion
9 Towards incorporation: changing attitudes towards urban administration and challenges to elected police commissions, 1833–64
Introduction
Changing attitudes and pressures for reform
Hotbeds of radicalism? The social composition and political outlook of Police Commissions
Opposition, apathy and exclusion
Conclusion
10 Conclusion
Appendix I: Social status classifications of police commissioners’ occupational profiles
Appendix II: Selection of amended police constitutions, 1800–33
Bibliography
Index