Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution......Page 12
I. Beginnings......Page 22
1 War—A Fortuitous Occasion for Social Disciplining and Political Centralization? The Case of Bavaria under Maximilian I......Page 24
2 “Is It Useful to Deceive the People?”: Secrecy and Deception as Political Resources......Page 36
3 State Desire: On the Epoch of the Police......Page 58
II. Police and Culture......Page 86
4 Nurturing the New Republic: The Contested Feminization of Law Enforcement in Weimar Culture......Page 88
5 A City Tracks a Murderer: Mass Murder and Mass Public in Weimar Germany......Page 108
6 How Fat Detectives Think......Page 134
III. Police and the Media......Page 156
7 “Passer à l’acte”: Policing (in) the Office: Notes on Industry Standards and the Große Polizeiausstellung of 1926......Page 158
8 Hitchcock’s Truth, or: Why The Wrong Man Is Not a Suspense Film......Page 178
IV. Contemporary Investigations......Page 190
9 Police, Paranoia, and Theater in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland......Page 192
10 A Critique of Community Policing......Page 210
11 Exception Rules: Contemporary Political Theory and the Police......Page 232
Contributors......Page 278
C......Page 282
F......Page 283
J......Page 284
O......Page 285
P......Page 286
S......Page 287
Z......Page 288