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The Import/Export of Police Models: Danish 19 th Century Police Reform Between Elites of Revolution and Reaction
Author(s) -
Christensen Mikkel Jarle
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12132
Subject(s) - danish , context (archaeology) , metropolitan police , power (physics) , political science , monarchy , metropolitan area , sociology , field (mathematics) , law , political economy , politics , public administration , history , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
The article investigates the diffusion of police models in the 19 th century taking the Danish import of the Metropolitan Police implemented in London in 1829 as its main object of analysis. Building on the sociological framework of Pierre Bourdieu, the focal point of the analysis is how an international police model was crafted by national elites who profited from the import of a specific form of policing. In the Danish context, the import and mutation of the English role model was closely related to a transformation of the national field of power as absolutism was formally disbanded but practically folded into a new constitutional monarchy in which conservative and liberal elites coexisted.