Widen your reading with these suggested journal articles. Links have been provided for SAGE journal articles, enabling you to access for free. You may have access to non-SAGE journal articles via your university library.

The contested and controversial development of policing in England is explored in Storch’s account of the mid-nineteenth-century experience:

Storch, R. (1975) ‘The Plague of Blue Locusts: Police Reform and Popular Resistance in Northern England 1840-57’, International Review of Social History, 20: 61-90.

An analysis of the social background of police recruits in the first century or so of modern policing is provided in Emsley and Clapson’s article:

Emsely, C. and Clapson, R. (1994) ‘Recruiting the English Policeman C. 1840–1940’, Policing and Society, 3: 269-285.

Brogden explored the influence of colonial policing on the domestic development of policing in England, suggesting that transnational and global influences are not solely of recent significance:

Brogden, M. (1987) ‘The Emergence of the Police: The Colonial Dimension’, British Journal of Criminology, 27: 4-14.

Myths and popular cultural representations of policing in the ‘golden age’ of the 1950s abound, and McLaughlin critically examines the creation of the iconic Dixon of Dock Green:

McLaughlin, E. (2005) ‘From Reel to Ideal: The Blue Lamp and the Popular Cultural Construction of the English Bobby’, Crime, Media, Culture, 1(1): 11-30.