Daily Archives: May 31, 2020

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue collects scholarship and activist work that challenges the assumption that police are necessary by examining instances of social peace without formal, institutionalized police. Features Tom Lambert reconstructs how local communities in tenth-century England carried out legal interdictions while tempering violent retributive justice. Luke A. Fidler considers how public sculpture imposed order by displaying scenes of punitive captivity in the medieval Anglo-Saxon world. Gagan Preet Singh examines why victims of cattle-theft in colonial north India avoided the police, relying instead on communal justice. Alex Winder investigates the […]