Enforcing Law and Order

Analyze how the responsibility for enforcing law and order has changed over time.
Describe the systems of communal and family responsibility in Saxon and medieval times.
Evaluate the role of manorial, church, and royal courts in the later medieval period.
Explain the growth of civic and parish responsibilities in the sixteenth century.
Assess the development and conceptualisation of state police forces in the nineteenth century.
Analyze the changing nature of policing and law enforcement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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