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What institutional problems and social concerns were associated with the establishment and rise of the “new police”?
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What institutional problems and social concerns were associated with the establishment and rise of the "new police"? The word, "Police" was derived from the Greek word "Polis", meaning city. (Met History) "The word "Police" means, generally, the arrangements made in all civilised countries to ensure that the inhabitants keep the peace and obey the law. The word also denotes the force of peace officers (or police) employed for this purpose". Before the eighteenth century, in English the word "Police", was used to refer, (Coleman et al 2000) "to the general governance and administrative regulation of the city. Thus the activity of policing embraced the whole range of functions necessary for maintenance of civic society", if this definition were to be used today it include the activities of tax inspector, environmental health officers and school crossing patrols. Only in the mid-eighteenth century that the word "police", (Coleman et al 2000) "began to...
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