Paul Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2248-5294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memoriam: Clive Emsley (1944-2020), Jean-Claude Farcy (1945-2020), Dominique Kalifa (1957-2020)
Crime, History & Societies wishes to pay tribute to the lives and work of three important historians of crime and criminal justice, all of whom were closely associated with the work of the journal as members of its Editorial Board or Advisory Board. All three colleagues helped to shape the field of criminal justice history through their publications, teaching and academic leadership, and all three contributed significantly to the work of the jour…
Tribute to Professor Clive Emsley
Clive Emsley was one of the foremost exponents of criminal justice history, a longstanding contributor to this journal and a constant friend to many members of its Editorial Board. A generous and inclusive scholar, with a vast store of knowledge and a prodigious tally of influential publications, he helped to define and develop criminal justice history
Policing, ‘Science’, and the Curious Case of Photo-Fit
This article analyses the curious development and subsequent refinement of the Photo-FIT system for the identification of criminal suspects, used by police forces around the world from the 1970s. Situating Photo-FIT in a succession of other technologies of identification, it demonstrates that, far from representing the onward march of science and technology (and the way in which both were harnessed to the power of the state in the twentieth centu…
Historical criminology and the explanatory power of the past
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the heart of historical criminology (research which incorporates historical primary sources while addressing present-day debates and practices in the criminal justice field). This article seeks first to categorize the ways in which criminologists have used historical data thus far, arguing that they are most commonly deployed to ‘problematize’ the contempo…
The New Police in the Nineteenth Century
The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, supposedly more efficient, forces were raised in their stead. Subsequently, the introduction of the 'New Police' has been represented as a watershed in the development of the systems of policing we know today. But just how sweeping were the changes made t…
London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720–c.1930: A Social and Cultural History, by Heather Shore
In an academic environment increasingly dominated by the short publication cycles imposed by the Research Excellence Framework, it is both refreshing and exhilarating to read a book which is the product of a very extensive period of research and reflection. As Heather Shore is happy to admit in the foreword, this book has been ‘a long time coming’ but is, in the opinion of this reviewer, all the better for it. Drawing on an exceptionally broad ra…
New Police in the Nineteenth Century
Evaluating and Improving the Quality of Patient Care in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at University Hospital Waterford
Background: In 2015, 2200 patients attended the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory in University Hospital Waterford. 3,142 procedures were completed. This gives an average of 60 cases per week. As a quality improvement initiative, the cath lab nursing staff undertook a patient experience survey to illuminate the positive and negative aspects of the care provided in our centre. The aim of this survey was to use these results to guide improvements …
The Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice
This essay analyzes the historiography of the field of criminal justice history. It traces the development of four broad approaches to the historical study of crime, policing, justice, and punishment from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. The four approaches identified are characterized as positivist/empirical, theoretical, social, and cultural. Concentrating primarily (but not exclusively) on works focused on the United King…
The Vagrancy Act (1824) and the Persistence of Pre-emptive Policing in England since 1750
This article argues that research into preventive and pre-emptive crime control in the United Kingdom has marginalized the historical persistence of the power to arrest and convict on justified suspicion of intent. It traces the genesis of this power in statute law (particularly the Vagrancy Act of 1824) and demonstrates its consistent use in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It shows how this pre-emptive power was fiercely defended by poli…
Crime and Justice since 1750
This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system, changing perceptions of criminals, long-term…
Nationalism and Historical Writing
This chapter analyses the links between the development of historical writing (and the historical profession) and the evolution of nationalism (as both cultural sentiment and political doctrine). While many cultural products other than the written word can provide populations with a sense of a shared past, written history produced by acknowledged specialists has often been privileged in nationalist discourses, partly due to the success of the his…
Crime and Justice 1750-1950
This book provides an introductory text for students taking courses in recent criminal justice history. Chapters cover the key issues central to an understanding of the historical background to the current criminal justice system, covering the crime of murder, the emergence, establishment and development of the police, crime and criminals, criminals and victims, the courts and punishment, women and children, and surveillance and the workplace. In…
History, criminology and the ‘use’ of the past
This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the disciplines of sociological criminology and criminal justice history are not more closely aligned. It contends that intellectual traffic between the two fields is not usually limited by institutional barriers, nor is it a legacy of the disciplinary antipathy which existed between history and sociology in Britain during the mid-twentieth century. Ra…
Equator Principles: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love sustainability
The rise of sustainability as a concept in business forces companies to navigate a complex arena of standards and codes. The active and controversial debate regarding ‘what the Equator Principles mean’ for global finance and the projects it funds will undoubtedly continue. In the meantime, they represent an important shift in social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) by serving as guidance for process-driven project development. This repr…
France. Inventing the Nation
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
Gendarmerie, Etat et société au XIXe siècle
Gendarmerie, Etat et société au XIXe siècle Get access Paul Lawrence Paul Lawrence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 120–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.1.120 Published: 01 March 2004
Places Hidden in the Old Testament
Culturally Sensitive Care of the Muslim Patient
The number of Muslims in the United States is growing. This article outlines a few of the major beliefs in Islam. Religious and philosophical factors that affect health care are discussed, and practical suggestions are made for nursing actions that lead to culture care preservation, culture care accommodation, and culture care restructuring. Major topics covered include the need for cleanliness, preparation for prayer, modesty, family structure, …
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
Naturalization, ethnicity and national identity in France between the wars
This article aims to study French conceptions of their own and other national identities via the prism of naturalization ‐ the concession of citizenship. New, easy‐access nationality legislation introduced in the interwar period seems to provide evidence of the development of an inclusive, non‐ethnic concept of citizenship. However, a closer analysis shows that the insecurity of French national identity between the wars coloured the whole natural…
Sex Education Programmes for Students with Severe Learning Difficulties in Further Education and the Problem of Evaluation
This paper is based on a qualitative study of the evaluation of sex education programmes for young people with severe learning difficulties. In an area so fraught with dilemmas and controversies, any such research will be problematic and tentative. The approach to evaluation described here is one which attempts to realise the right of people with learning difficulties to make informed choices. The course aims both to provide students with informa…
Historical criminology and the explanatory power of the past
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the heart of historical criminology (research which incorporates historical primary sources while addressing present-day debates and practices in the criminal justice field). This article seeks first to categorize the ways in which criminologists have used historical data thus far, arguing that they are most commonly deployed to ‘problematize’ the contempo…
History, criminology and the ‘use’ of the past
This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the disciplines of sociological criminology and criminal justice history are not more closely aligned. It contends that intellectual traffic between the two fields is not usually limited by institutional barriers, nor is it a legacy of the disciplinary antipathy which existed between history and sociology in Britain during the mid-twentieth century. Ra…
Crime and Justice 1750-1950
This book provides an introductory text for students taking courses in recent criminal justice history. Chapters cover the key issues central to an understanding of the historical background to the current criminal justice system, covering the crime of murder, the emergence, establishment and development of the police, crime and criminals, criminals and victims, the courts and punishment, women and children, and surveillance and the workplace. In…
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
The Vagrancy Act (1824) and the Persistence of Pre-emptive Policing in England since 1750
This article argues that research into preventive and pre-emptive crime control in the United Kingdom has marginalized the historical persistence of the power to arrest and convict on justified suspicion of intent. It traces the genesis of this power in statute law (particularly the Vagrancy Act of 1824) and demonstrates its consistent use in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It shows how this pre-emptive power was fiercely defended by poli…
Crime and Justice since 1750
This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system, changing perceptions of criminals, long-term…
Nationalism and Historical Writing
This chapter analyses the links between the development of historical writing (and the historical profession) and the evolution of nationalism (as both cultural sentiment and political doctrine). While many cultural products other than the written word can provide populations with a sense of a shared past, written history produced by acknowledged specialists has often been privileged in nationalist discourses, partly due to the success of the his…
Sex Education Programmes for Students with Severe Learning Difficulties in Further Education and the Problem of Evaluation
This paper is based on a qualitative study of the evaluation of sex education programmes for young people with severe learning difficulties. In an area so fraught with dilemmas and controversies, any such research will be problematic and tentative. The approach to evaluation described here is one which attempts to realise the right of people with learning difficulties to make informed choices. The course aims both to provide students with informa…
Culturally Sensitive Care of the Muslim Patient
The number of Muslims in the United States is growing. This article outlines a few of the major beliefs in Islam. Religious and philosophical factors that affect health care are discussed, and practical suggestions are made for nursing actions that lead to culture care preservation, culture care accommodation, and culture care restructuring. Major topics covered include the need for cleanliness, preparation for prayer, modesty, family structure, …
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
Naturalization, ethnicity and national identity in France between the wars
This article aims to study French conceptions of their own and other national identities via the prism of naturalization ‐ the concession of citizenship. New, easy‐access nationality legislation introduced in the interwar period seems to provide evidence of the development of an inclusive, non‐ethnic concept of citizenship. However, a closer analysis shows that the insecurity of French national identity between the wars coloured the whole natural…
Places Hidden in the Old Testament
Gendarmerie, Etat et société au XIXe siècle
Gendarmerie, Etat et société au XIXe siècle Get access Paul Lawrence Paul Lawrence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 120–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.1.120 Published: 01 March 2004
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
Equator Principles: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love sustainability
The rise of sustainability as a concept in business forces companies to navigate a complex arena of standards and codes. The active and controversial debate regarding ‘what the Equator Principles mean’ for global finance and the projects it funds will undoubtedly continue. In the meantime, they represent an important shift in social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) by serving as guidance for process-driven project development. This repr…
France. Inventing the Nation
History, criminology and the ‘use’ of the past
This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the disciplines of sociological criminology and criminal justice history are not more closely aligned. It contends that intellectual traffic between the two fields is not usually limited by institutional barriers, nor is it a legacy of the disciplinary antipathy which existed between history and sociology in Britain during the mid-twentieth century. Ra…
Nationalism and Historical Writing
This chapter analyses the links between the development of historical writing (and the historical profession) and the evolution of nationalism (as both cultural sentiment and political doctrine). While many cultural products other than the written word can provide populations with a sense of a shared past, written history produced by acknowledged specialists has often been privileged in nationalist discourses, partly due to the success of the his…
Crime and Justice 1750-1950
This book provides an introductory text for students taking courses in recent criminal justice history. Chapters cover the key issues central to an understanding of the historical background to the current criminal justice system, covering the crime of murder, the emergence, establishment and development of the police, crime and criminals, criminals and victims, the courts and punishment, women and children, and surveillance and the workplace. In…
Crime and Justice since 1750
This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system, changing perceptions of criminals, long-term…
The Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice
This essay analyzes the historiography of the field of criminal justice history. It traces the development of four broad approaches to the historical study of crime, policing, justice, and punishment from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. The four approaches identified are characterized as positivist/empirical, theoretical, social, and cultural. Concentrating primarily (but not exclusively) on works focused on the United King…
The Vagrancy Act (1824) and the Persistence of Pre-emptive Policing in England since 1750
This article argues that research into preventive and pre-emptive crime control in the United Kingdom has marginalized the historical persistence of the power to arrest and convict on justified suspicion of intent. It traces the genesis of this power in statute law (particularly the Vagrancy Act of 1824) and demonstrates its consistent use in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It shows how this pre-emptive power was fiercely defended by poli…
The New Police in the Nineteenth Century
The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, supposedly more efficient, forces were raised in their stead. Subsequently, the introduction of the 'New Police' has been represented as a watershed in the development of the systems of policing we know today. But just how sweeping were the changes made t…
London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720–c.1930: A Social and Cultural History, by Heather Shore
In an academic environment increasingly dominated by the short publication cycles imposed by the Research Excellence Framework, it is both refreshing and exhilarating to read a book which is the product of a very extensive period of research and reflection. As Heather Shore is happy to admit in the foreword, this book has been ‘a long time coming’ but is, in the opinion of this reviewer, all the better for it. Drawing on an exceptionally broad ra…
New Police in the Nineteenth Century
Evaluating and Improving the Quality of Patient Care in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at University Hospital Waterford
Background: In 2015, 2200 patients attended the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory in University Hospital Waterford. 3,142 procedures were completed. This gives an average of 60 cases per week. As a quality improvement initiative, the cath lab nursing staff undertook a patient experience survey to illuminate the positive and negative aspects of the care provided in our centre. The aim of this survey was to use these results to guide improvements …
Historical criminology and the explanatory power of the past
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the heart of historical criminology (research which incorporates historical primary sources while addressing present-day debates and practices in the criminal justice field). This article seeks first to categorize the ways in which criminologists have used historical data thus far, arguing that they are most commonly deployed to ‘problematize’ the contempo…
Policing, ‘Science’, and the Curious Case of Photo-Fit
This article analyses the curious development and subsequent refinement of the Photo-FIT system for the identification of criminal suspects, used by police forces around the world from the 1970s. Situating Photo-FIT in a succession of other technologies of identification, it demonstrates that, far from representing the onward march of science and technology (and the way in which both were harnessed to the power of the state in the twentieth centu…
In Memoriam: Clive Emsley (1944-2020), Jean-Claude Farcy (1945-2020), Dominique Kalifa (1957-2020)
Crime, History & Societies wishes to pay tribute to the lives and work of three important historians of crime and criminal justice, all of whom were closely associated with the work of the journal as members of its Editorial Board or Advisory Board. All three colleagues helped to shape the field of criminal justice history through their publications, teaching and academic leadership, and all three contributed significantly to the work of the jour…
Tribute to Professor Clive Emsley
Clive Emsley was one of the foremost exponents of criminal justice history, a longstanding contributor to this journal and a constant friend to many members of its Editorial Board. A generous and inclusive scholar, with a vast store of knowledge and a prodigious tally of influential publications, he helped to define and develop criminal justice history
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