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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 The

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Author

Klaus Mladek, editor

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349538461

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Education, Social Science