商品簡介
These ten articles describe the work and lives of police detectives from a variety of times and places as they developed into a professional force. Topics include London's Bow Street runners of the late eighteenth century, the thief-catchers of post-revolutionary Paris, French detectives of the nineteenth century who changed from criminals to detectives, a new look at the first century of the Metropolitan Police, the cultural contexts of detective memoirs in Britain, the changing image of the detective from sleuth to super-technician, New Zealand policing in the first half of the twentieth century, the image of the Gestapo in the minds of ordinary Germans, political and security policing at the end of the age of empire, and perceptions of private detectives, vigilantes, and FBI counterintelligence. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Professor Clive Emsley is from The Open University, UK. Professor Haia Shpayer-Makov is based at the University of Haifa, Israel.
