SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Tithing, Frankpledge, Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: joseph pazzano

Document Summary

The development of policing in canada was strongly influenced by the system of policing that emerged in england in the early 1800s. In both greece and the roman empire, it was military who were charged with policing: romans were the first to utilize a non-military unit (vigils) whose task was to fight fires and to help maintain order. Law enforcement in england could be traced back to the reign of alfred the great (872: he lacked a standing army to maintain order and lacked the funds to create a force specifically for peacekeeping. Instituted the frank-pledge system (early system of maintaining order in early. Shire-reeve hundredman tythingmen this localized system of crime control was based on the concept that all individuals were responsible for one another. By 1252, during the reign of henry |||, the title constable was being given to the local law enforcement officers (aka tythingmen), and a watch-and-ward system got introduced.