CRIM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Estevan Riot, Collaborative Partnerships, October Crisis
21 Apr 2016
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Early codified laws: code of hammurabi (1200 bc, shang and chou dynasties (1000 bc) Feudal england policing as a communal responsibility: raising the hue and cry . Frankpledge: tythingman -> hundredman -> shire reeve, tythingman forerunner to modern day police officer. Henry iii: watch and ward system, title of constable being given to local law enforcement. Statute of winchester, 1285: policing as a community responsibility. Justice of the peace act, 1361: centralized peacekeeping duties under power of justices of the peace, replaced shire-reeve, police subordinated to the judiciary. Growth of cities and decline of feudal agrarian society led to deterioration of community-based policing: industrial revolution, urbanization. First organized police in england fielding"s bow street runners . Resistance to creation of full-time, organized police force: second military force , by parliament and citizens. Metropolitan police act, 1829: sir robert peel, british home secretary, bobbies , peelers , uniformed (blue) military was red, based on community control.
