*NO INTRODUCTION/CONCLUSION
*Essay Question: READ TWO ITEMS 1)Storch, R.D. 1975. The plague of blue locusts: police reform and popular resistance in northern England, 1840
-57. International
Review of Social History. 20(1), pp.61-90.
2)Emsley, C. 1996. The English police: a political and social history. 2nd edition. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman. Chapter 4.
->Contrast and evaluate Storch’s and Emsley’s interpretations of police-public relations in the nineteenth century. In your answer you should
explore:
a) Points where the authors differ in their assessments b) Why the authors arrive at different conclusions c) The relative merits of their
arguments
*Reference :
<Policing 1: Reform and Governance>
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<Policing 2: Experiences>
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