This article aims to contribute to the expanding field of security history, via a reconstruction of the reflections on the power of the police which developed in the various pre-unification states of Italy, from the Restoration up until national unification. This periodization demonstrates, it is argued, the connection between the development of the modern police and a new concept of “security”, both aspects of the larger process of state building in the nineteenth century. The analysis draws upon a series of memoirs and manuscripts produced in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, integrating them with a broader treatise and pamphlet literature which flourished in the Italian peninsula during the first half of the nineteenth century. The comparison of manuscript with published, literary sources enables the identification of common themes. These include: the complex relationship between the police and politics, and between security and power (particularly, the discretionary power of the police, its relationship with the law and the risk of arbitrary recourse to espionnage tactics).
Entre politique et sécurité. Réflexion sur la police dans l’Italie de la première moitié du XIXe siècle / Di Fiore, Laura. - In: CRIME, HISTOIRE & SOCIÉTÉS. - ISSN 1422-0857. - 25:1(2021), pp. 29-53. [10.4000/chs.2880]
Entre politique et sécurité. Réflexion sur la police dans l’Italie de la première moitié du XIXe siècle
Di Fiore, Laura
2021
Abstract
This article aims to contribute to the expanding field of security history, via a reconstruction of the reflections on the power of the police which developed in the various pre-unification states of Italy, from the Restoration up until national unification. This periodization demonstrates, it is argued, the connection between the development of the modern police and a new concept of “security”, both aspects of the larger process of state building in the nineteenth century. The analysis draws upon a series of memoirs and manuscripts produced in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, integrating them with a broader treatise and pamphlet literature which flourished in the Italian peninsula during the first half of the nineteenth century. The comparison of manuscript with published, literary sources enables the identification of common themes. These include: the complex relationship between the police and politics, and between security and power (particularly, the discretionary power of the police, its relationship with the law and the risk of arbitrary recourse to espionnage tactics).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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