The Colonial and Postcolonial Policing Group (COPP) is a global network of academics, policy-makers and practitioners with a shared interest in British colonial and postcolonial policing and its legacy and the active promotion of research into into international policing today. COPP is hosted by The Open University through its International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research.
On these webpages you will fine details of the aims of the network, of the interest and publications of its members and of events connected to COPP. Should you require further information or wish to join our group, please do contact us.
Emmanuel Blanchard, ‘La Police Parisienne et les Algeriens 1944 – 1962’, Noveau Monde Editions 2011. Download the flyer for this book [PDF 1MB]
Jakob Zollman, ‘Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre Grenzen. Die Kolonialpolizei in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1894 – 1915’, (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 191), Göttingen 2010. Follow this link for more details.
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In recent years the history of police and policing has become a key area of debate across a range of disciplines: criminology, sociology, political science and history.
This authoritative series, published by Ashgate, brings together the most important and influential English-language scholarship in the field, arranged chronologically across four volumes. The series includes articles on the shifting meaning of 'police', the growth of bureaucratic policing during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, consolidation in the twentieth century, and the international diffusion of export models and practices. The texts included come from a range of disciplines and chart the recent debates from traditional Whig history, revisionist work published during the last quarter of the twentieth century, and subsequent reassessments.
Each volume is edited by a historian recognised as an authority in the area, and features an introductory essay which explains the key changes in the period and the significance of the selected articles and essays. The series provides a valuable resource for scholars new to the area as well as for those who may have overlooked an important essay or article published in an edited collection, or in a journal with limited circulation or from a discipline that they might not normally consult.
Further information is available at: www.ashgate.com, or you can download a flyer for each volume:
The New Police in the Nineteenth Century, Paul Lawrence
Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century, Chris A Williams
Globalising British Policing, Georgina Sinclair
Theories and Origins of the Modern Police, Clive Emsley
Escola de Criminologia,
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto,
14-15 April 2011
The principal objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together both established and early-career scholars with research interests in the areas of police history, colonial history, crime, justice and security regarding the Portuguese Empire. It will focus upon the organisational forms, methods and structures of Portuguese colonial policing, consolidating knowledge of the Portuguese colonial state and reflecting upon its postcolonial legacy.
Download the workshop programme [PDF, 157 KB]
A new website: Policing Studies Forum.
6pm–7.30pm followed by a wine reception
Venue: Chapters, King’s College London, Strand, London WCR 2LS
Hosted by the University of London Institute for the Study of the Americas, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the British Society of Criminology.
Panel: Professor Ben Bowling (author of Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice, OUP 2010), Professor Robert Reiner (LSE), Dr Amanda Sives (Liverpool), and Leroy Logan MBE (Metropolitan Police Service) Chair: Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Chris Williams and Georgina Sinclair have been specialist advisers and contributors to the latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. They have added biographies of forty individuals who shaped the history of policing in Britain and overseas territories under British rule.
Chris Williams says:
“The idea of the British police was one of Great Britain’s most distinctive contributions to the world of criminal justice. The ODNB has always reflected noteworthy people who have shaped the British past.
For most of the twentieth century, police officers have been taken for granted: always there, always in the background. Towards the end of it, though, an increased prominence of policing led to more interest in the present and the history of the topic.
It’s only right that this important group of people have their stories told and their achievements published.”
We had a very successful workshop at the University of London. Some of the papers are now available online: Richard Hill, Lanre Ikuteyijo & Kemi Rotimi and John Bown. We hope to put video extracts from several of the papers online in the future.
New book
by Ben BowlingPolicing the Caribbean, Clarendon Studies in Criminology
376 pages | 216x138mm
978-0-19-957769-9 | Hardback | May 2010
Follow this link for more information.
Congratulations to Richard on the publication of this authoritative new work on Crown‐ Maori relations. Maori and the State: Crown‐Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950‐ 2000 is the companion volume to State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy (VUP 2004), which examined Crown–Maori relations in first half of the twentieth‐century. Covering the period when official policy changed from assimilation to bi‐culturalism, Maori and the State analyses Maori aspirations in terms of the quest for Crown recognition of rangatiratanga (roughly, autonomy). Among other things, the book covers the policing of Maori, including the semi-autonomous institution of Maori Wardens which has deep roots in indirect-control methods of policing tribes in colonial times.
More information is available from the publishers’ website.
Marieke Bloembergen’s new book De geschiedenis van de politie in Nederlands-Indië. Uit zorg en angst (Amsterdam: Boom, Leiden: KITLV 2009) [The history of the police in the Dutch East Indies. Out of care and fear.] analyses the history of the police in the late colonial state of the Dutch East Indies, from the 1870s until the Japanese Occupation in 1942. It addresses, among other questions, the role of the police and the use of violence in the context of colonial state formation. To what extent could this colonial state be characterized as a police state? And what was colonial about colonial policing? Follow this link for more information.
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