Francis Dodsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 149379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Dodsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodsworth |
| SIGNATURE | DODSWORTH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0884-633X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Law, order, and social media: Perceptions of police effectiveness on X/Twitter
This study examines public sentiment towards policing in England expressed in relation to a viral 13-second social media altercation on X (formerly Twitter) on 17 November 2023 involving Metropolitan Police officers in Kingston upon Thames, London. A dataset of 5416 interactions was extracted via NodeXL and analysed for group clustering, sentiment categorisation, and emotional lexicon mapping. Sentiment analysis revealed an overwhelming prevalenc…
The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection
This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the ‘security society’ which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly, and develops a 'critical history' of security
The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection
The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840
In The First English Detectives John Beattie provides us not only with the first analytical history of the activities of the Bow Street Runners in London, but also with a sustained argument about t
Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian LondonBenjamin WEINSTEIN
Habit, the Criminal Body and the Body Politic in England, c. 1700–1800
This article explores the role that ‘habit’ played in discourses on crime in the 18th century, a subject which forms an important part of the history of ‘the social’. It seeks to bridge the division between ‘liberal’ positions which see crime as a product of social circumstance, and the conservative position which stresses the role of will and individual responsibility, by drawing attention to the role habit played in uniting these conceptions in…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
Two views on material and spatial understandings of religious sites and spaces
Reflections on the material and spatial cultures of religious sites and buildings in london's east end: Introduction
This special issue brings together a group of scholars of different academic provenance—sociology, history, planning, urban spatial analysis, religious studies—to attend to the materialities of religion in London. In the articles published here we see how mobilities and interconnections are central to the formation of religious life and its architectures in London at each historical conjuncture. The essays look at London, particularly its eastern…
Shifting religions and cultures in london's east end
This article considers the ways in which well-established “traditional“ religious communities-particularly Christianity but, to a lesser extent, Islam and Judaism-attempt to construct and minister to religious communities in east London in an age of super-diversity, multiculturalism, and globalization, where religious attendance and affiliation is in no way determined and cannot be taken for granted. We focus particularly on the ways in which rel…
Into Unorthodox London: The Religious Ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Constituting religious publics: The tale of two non-conformist churches in London
This article explores the constitution of religious spaces and publics in the city through case studies of two non-conformist protestant churches in London: City Temple and the Metropolitan Tabernacle. This approach allows us to unpack broad arguments about changing religious cultures in the modern city by highlighting the specificities of everyday religious cultures. Despite similar histories, from Victorian prominence to wartime destruction and…
Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865. By David G. Barrie (Uffculme, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, xii + 307pp. 45.00)
This book is a welcome contribution to the subject, not only providing the first substantial revisionist account of Scottish policing, but also contributing points of interest to the history of British police more generally. In this well argued, carefully researched book, Barrie illuminates his subject with a wealth of detail and an array of fascinating examples. Although Glasgow forms the centrepiece of his research, this is supplemented with a …
Fabricating the Market: The Promotion of Life Assurance in the Long Nineteenth-Century
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation of resources, it had to be made. Life insurance had to appear desirable and reliable. This involved the circulation of a variety of advertising media, one aspect of which was the fabrication of grand offices as headquarters for life assurance companies. These buildings and their widely-circulated images were part of a process of making life assura…
The Idea of Police in Eighteenth-Century England: Discipline, Reformation, Superintendence, c. 1780-1800
In the late eighteenth century a series of English authors wrote on the subject of "police." Their aim in these works was generally to advocate structural reform of the existing institutions of civil government, particularly focused around the introduction of regularity, uniformity and subordination into their operation. These disciplinary mechanisms would act as instruments for the production of virtue, encouraging industriousness and preventing…
Police and the Prevention of Crime: Commerce, Temptation and the Corruption of the Body Politic, from Fielding to Colquhoun
Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization of the causes and effects of crime as stemming from social processes rather than individual character is central to the history of the social. Examination of the work of eighteenth-century theorists of police demonstrates a particular …
Virtus on Whitehall: The Politics of Palladianism in William Kent's Treasury Building, 1733-61
The development of the modern state in the eighteenth century had a material as well as a socio-political dimension. The 1730s saw the domination of neo-Palladianism in the Office of Works and the establishment of a prominent and permanent administrative centre whose style made an architectural statement about the conduct of Walpole's government. The nature of this statement is only comprehensible when viewed in the context of contemporary politi…
Civic’ police and the condition of liberty: The rationality of governance in eighteenth-century England
In this article it is argued that previous attempts to understand the organization of eighteenthcentury systems of police have failed to take into account the political implications of governmental organization. Examining the office of constable in terms of the contemporary governmental imagination reveals that concerns with the independence of the officers and the need to ward against ‘corruption’ are not simply practical requirements. The unpai…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
Fabricating the Market: The Promotion of Life Assurance in the Long Nineteenth-Century
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation of resources, it had to be made. Life insurance had to appear desirable and reliable. This involved the circulation of a variety of advertising media, one aspect of which was the fabrication of grand offices as headquarters for life assurance companies. These buildings and their widely-circulated images were part of a process of making life assura…
Civic’ police and the condition of liberty: The rationality of governance in eighteenth-century England
In this article it is argued that previous attempts to understand the organization of eighteenthcentury systems of police have failed to take into account the political implications of governmental organization. Examining the office of constable in terms of the contemporary governmental imagination reveals that concerns with the independence of the officers and the need to ward against ‘corruption’ are not simply practical requirements. The unpai…
The Idea of Police in Eighteenth-Century England: Discipline, Reformation, Superintendence, c. 1780-1800
In the late eighteenth century a series of English authors wrote on the subject of "police." Their aim in these works was generally to advocate structural reform of the existing institutions of civil government, particularly focused around the introduction of regularity, uniformity and subordination into their operation. These disciplinary mechanisms would act as instruments for the production of virtue, encouraging industriousness and preventing…
Police and the Prevention of Crime: Commerce, Temptation and the Corruption of the Body Politic, from Fielding to Colquhoun
Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization of the causes and effects of crime as stemming from social processes rather than individual character is central to the history of the social. Examination of the work of eighteenth-century theorists of police demonstrates a particular …
Virtus on Whitehall: The Politics of Palladianism in William Kent's Treasury Building, 1733-61
The development of the modern state in the eighteenth century had a material as well as a socio-political dimension. The 1730s saw the domination of neo-Palladianism in the Office of Works and the establishment of a prominent and permanent administrative centre whose style made an architectural statement about the conduct of Walpole's government. The nature of this statement is only comprehensible when viewed in the context of contemporary politi…
Habit, the Criminal Body and the Body Politic in England, c. 1700–1800
This article explores the role that ‘habit’ played in discourses on crime in the 18th century, a subject which forms an important part of the history of ‘the social’. It seeks to bridge the division between ‘liberal’ positions which see crime as a product of social circumstance, and the conservative position which stresses the role of will and individual responsibility, by drawing attention to the role habit played in uniting these conceptions in…
Shifting religions and cultures in london's east end
This article considers the ways in which well-established “traditional“ religious communities-particularly Christianity but, to a lesser extent, Islam and Judaism-attempt to construct and minister to religious communities in east London in an age of super-diversity, multiculturalism, and globalization, where religious attendance and affiliation is in no way determined and cannot be taken for granted. We focus particularly on the ways in which rel…
Civic’ police and the condition of liberty: The rationality of governance in eighteenth-century England
In this article it is argued that previous attempts to understand the organization of eighteenthcentury systems of police have failed to take into account the political implications of governmental organization. Examining the office of constable in terms of the contemporary governmental imagination reveals that concerns with the independence of the officers and the need to ward against ‘corruption’ are not simply practical requirements. The unpai…
Virtus on Whitehall: The Politics of Palladianism in William Kent's Treasury Building, 1733-61
The development of the modern state in the eighteenth century had a material as well as a socio-political dimension. The 1730s saw the domination of neo-Palladianism in the Office of Works and the establishment of a prominent and permanent administrative centre whose style made an architectural statement about the conduct of Walpole's government. The nature of this statement is only comprehensible when viewed in the context of contemporary politi…
Police and the Prevention of Crime: Commerce, Temptation and the Corruption of the Body Politic, from Fielding to Colquhoun
Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization of the causes and effects of crime as stemming from social processes rather than individual character is central to the history of the social. Examination of the work of eighteenth-century theorists of police demonstrates a particular …
The Idea of Police in Eighteenth-Century England: Discipline, Reformation, Superintendence, c. 1780-1800
In the late eighteenth century a series of English authors wrote on the subject of "police." Their aim in these works was generally to advocate structural reform of the existing institutions of civil government, particularly focused around the introduction of regularity, uniformity and subordination into their operation. These disciplinary mechanisms would act as instruments for the production of virtue, encouraging industriousness and preventing…
Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865. By David G. Barrie (Uffculme, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, xii + 307pp. 45.00)
This book is a welcome contribution to the subject, not only providing the first substantial revisionist account of Scottish policing, but also contributing points of interest to the history of British police more generally. In this well argued, carefully researched book, Barrie illuminates his subject with a wealth of detail and an array of fascinating examples. Although Glasgow forms the centrepiece of his research, this is supplemented with a …
Fabricating the Market: The Promotion of Life Assurance in the Long Nineteenth-Century
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation of resources, it had to be made. Life insurance had to appear desirable and reliable. This involved the circulation of a variety of advertising media, one aspect of which was the fabrication of grand offices as headquarters for life assurance companies. These buildings and their widely-circulated images were part of a process of making life assura…
Constituting religious publics: The tale of two non-conformist churches in London
This article explores the constitution of religious spaces and publics in the city through case studies of two non-conformist protestant churches in London: City Temple and the Metropolitan Tabernacle. This approach allows us to unpack broad arguments about changing religious cultures in the modern city by highlighting the specificities of everyday religious cultures. Despite similar histories, from Victorian prominence to wartime destruction and…
Into Unorthodox London: The Religious Ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Habit, the Criminal Body and the Body Politic in England, c. 1700–1800
This article explores the role that ‘habit’ played in discourses on crime in the 18th century, a subject which forms an important part of the history of ‘the social’. It seeks to bridge the division between ‘liberal’ positions which see crime as a product of social circumstance, and the conservative position which stresses the role of will and individual responsibility, by drawing attention to the role habit played in uniting these conceptions in…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
Two views on material and spatial understandings of religious sites and spaces
Reflections on the material and spatial cultures of religious sites and buildings in london's east end: Introduction
This special issue brings together a group of scholars of different academic provenance—sociology, history, planning, urban spatial analysis, religious studies—to attend to the materialities of religion in London. In the articles published here we see how mobilities and interconnections are central to the formation of religious life and its architectures in London at each historical conjuncture. The essays look at London, particularly its eastern…
Shifting religions and cultures in london's east end
This article considers the ways in which well-established “traditional“ religious communities-particularly Christianity but, to a lesser extent, Islam and Judaism-attempt to construct and minister to religious communities in east London in an age of super-diversity, multiculturalism, and globalization, where religious attendance and affiliation is in no way determined and cannot be taken for granted. We focus particularly on the ways in which rel…
The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840
In The First English Detectives John Beattie provides us not only with the first analytical history of the activities of the Bow Street Runners in London, but also with a sustained argument about t
Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian LondonBenjamin WEINSTEIN
The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection
This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the ‘security society’ which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly, and develops a 'critical history' of security
The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection
Law, order, and social media: Perceptions of police effectiveness on X/Twitter
This study examines public sentiment towards policing in England expressed in relation to a viral 13-second social media altercation on X (formerly Twitter) on 17 November 2023 involving Metropolitan Police officers in Kingston upon Thames, London. A dataset of 5416 interactions was extracted via NodeXL and analysed for group clustering, sentiment categorisation, and emotional lexicon mapping. Sentiment analysis revealed an overwhelming prevalenc…
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