The Import/Export of Police Models: Danish 19th Century Police Reform between Elites of Revolution and Reaction

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Import/Export of Police Models:

T2 - Danish 19th Century Police Reform between Elites of Revolution and Reaction

AU - Christensen, Mikkel Jarle

PY - 2017/12

Y1 - 2017/12

N2 - The article investigates the diffusion of police models in the 19th 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.

AB - The article investigates the diffusion of police models in the 19th 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.

U2 - 10.1111/johs.12132

DO - 10.1111/johs.12132

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0952-1909

JO - Journal of Historical Sociology

JF - Journal of Historical Sociology

ER -