The Import/Export of Police Models

Danish 19th Century Police Reform Between Elites of Revolution and Reaction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4301239
AutoresMikkel Jarle Christensen (0000-0001-9828-0482)
Año2017
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas845-867
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/johs.12132
OpenAlexW2486552161
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas34

The article investigates the diffusion of police models in the 19th century taking the Danish import of the Metropolitan Police implemented in London in 1829 as its main object of analysis. Building on the sociological framework of Pierre Bourdieu, the focal point of the analysis is how an international police model was crafted by national elites who profited from the import of a specific form of policing. In the Danish context, the import and mutation of the English role model was closely related to a transformation of the national field of power as absolutism was formally disbanded but practically folded into a new constitutional monarchy in which conservative and liberal elites coexisted

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Danish · Field (mathematics · Metropolitan area · Metropolitan police · Monarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · History · Law · Public Administration