Examining the repressive policy of police forces in the Third Reich and in fascist Italy has
been at the core of police research for both dictatorships. While this is without doubt an …

This article analyses the employment of rituals of celebration and commemoration to
ideologically and culturally bind police forces to the fascist and Nazi dictatorships. It …

The article analyses the occupational culture of the Italian Interior Ministry police after the
Second World War, following the demise of Benito Mussolini's fascist dictatorship. In …

The article analyses the employment of words, images and rituals, in the early years of the
Italian Republic, to reinforce the militarization of the Public Security Guard (Corpo delle …

This article introduces the police protocols-or correspondence journals-as a quantitative tool
for measuring police functions and priorities in the 19th century, using Bologna, Italy, as a …

This article brings together the results of a preliminary comparative analysis of the policing of
Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Based on an examination of the role of the …

While there are abundant studies of the Fascist police and historians have paid a great deal
of attention to policing in Liberal Italy, the history of policing in the Republican period is still a …

There has been a revival in studies on the various Italian police forces in recent times. This
article is part of that trend and uses interpretive categories that have become widespread …

This article examines the employment in post-war Italy of positivist scientific policing
originally inspired by the work of the criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso at the end of …

The article, moving from a sociological perspective, aims at stressing the ambiguity of the
process of democratization of the Italian Republican police by focusing on the notion of …