History B Schools History Project GCSE
Professionalisation
What Professionalisation means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Professionalisation
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Reference: OCR
Policing shifted from community systems like the hue and cry and unpaid parish constables towards professional forces, culminating in the 1829 Metropolitan Police and modern specialised units.
Topics that use Professionalisation
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- Changing attitudes to punishment
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- Community responsibility
- Community versus state involvement
- Continuity and change
- Continuity and change over time
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