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Emsley, Clive (2019). British Police in Postwar Vienna: Chasing the Real Harry Lime. History Today, 69(2) pp. 40–53.

Emsley, Clive (2018). A Police Officer and a Gentleman: A.F. 'Michael' Wilcox. London: Blue Lamp Books.

Emsley, Clive (2018). ‘Du concept à l’institution: Les spécifités du mot “police” en langue anglaise’. In: Cicchini, Marco and Denis, Vincent eds. Le Nœud gordien. Police et justice: des Lumières à l’État libéral (1750-1850). Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland: Georg, pp. 47–69.

Emsley, Clive (2017). Exporting British Policing during the Second World War: Policing Soldiers and Civilians. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Emsley, Clive (2016). Crime and Policing in Wartime. In: Knepper, Paul and Johansen, Anja eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 519–536.

Emsley, Clive (2013). Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Emsley, Clive (2012). Crucifying Tommy: punishment in the First World War. History Today, 62(11) pp. 29–35.

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Emsley, Clive (2012). Marketing the brand: exporting British police models 1829-1950. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 6(1) pp. 43–54.

Emsley, Clive and Sinclair, Georgina (2011). Bobbies Abroad. History Today, 61(10) pp. 49–51.

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Emsley, Clive (2011). Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England. Harlow: Longman/Pearson.

Emsley, Clive ed. (2011). Theories and Origins of the Modern Police. The History of Policing, 1. Farnham: Ashgate.

Emsley, Clive (2010). A legacy of conflict? The ‘brutalised veteran’ and violence in Europe after the Great War. In: Avdela, Efi; D'Cruze, Shani and Rowbotham, Judith eds. Problems of Crime and Violence in Europe, 1780-2000: Essays in Criminal Justice. UK: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 43–64.

Emsley, Clive (2009). The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present. London: Quercus.

Emsley, Clive (2008). Violent crime in England in 1919: post-war anxieties and press narratives. Continuity and Change, 23(1) pp. 173–195.

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Emsley, Clive (2008). Behind the wooden walls: the British defence against invasion, 1803-1805. In: Harding, Richard ed. A Great and Glorious Victory: New perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar. Barnsley: Seaforth, pp. 80–89.

Emsley, Clive (2007). Community Policing/Policing and Communities: Some Historical Perspectives. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 1(2) pp. 235–243.

Emsley, Clive (2007). Crime, police and penal policy: European experiences 1750-1940. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Emsley, Clive (2007). Historical perspectives on crime. In: Maguire, Mike; Morgan, Rod and Reiner, Robert eds. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 4th edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 122–138.

Emsley, Clive (2007). Entrepreneurs prives, fonctionnaires et juristes: Les transformations de la procedure judiciaire dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siecle. In: Farcy, Jean-Claude; Kalifa, Dominique and Luc, Jean-Noel eds. L'enquete judiciaire en Europe au XIXe siecle. Paris: Creaphis, pp. 43–58.

Emsley, Clive and Shpayer-Makov, Haia eds. (2006). Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Williams, Chris and Emsley, Clive (2006). Beware of the Leopard? Police archives in Great Britain. In: Procter, M and Cook, M. G. eds. Political Pressure and the Archival Record. Chicago, UK: Society of American Archivists, pp. 227–235.

Emsley, Clive (2006). Security work: citizens, employees and officials working on crime - a response. In: Levy, Rene; Muchielli, Laurent and Zauberman, Renee eds. Crime et Insecurite: Un Demi-Siecle de Bouleversements. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 281–286.

Emsley, Clive (2006). From ex-con to expert: the police detective in 19th-century France. In: Emsley, Clive and Shpayer-Makov, Haia eds. Police Detectives in History, 1750–1950. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 61–78.

Emsley, Clive (2006). Recidivists and recidivism: some broad conclusions from the English experience. In: Briegel, Francoise and Porret, Michel eds. Le criminal endurci: Recidive e trecidivists du Moyen Age au XXe siecle. Geneva: Droz, pp. 171–185.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple or a diseased orchard? In: Srebnik, Amy Gilman and Levy, Rene eds. Crime and culture: an historical perspective. Advances in Criminology. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 85–104.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750. London, UK: Hambledon Press.

Emsley, Clive ed. (2005). The Persistent Prison: Problems, Images and Alternatives. London: Francis Boutle.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Filling in, adding up, moving on; Criminal Justice History in contemporary Britain. Crime, History and Societies, 9(1) pp. 117–138.

Emsley, Clive (2005). El ejercito, la policia y el mantenimiento del orden publico en Inglaterra (c.1750-1950). Política y sociedad, 42(3) pp. 15–29.

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Emsley, Clive (2005). The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century Europe. In: Godfrey, Barry and Dunstall, Graeme eds. Crime and Empire, 1840-1940 : Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 8–24.

Emsley, Clive (2004). Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900. 3rd edition. Themes in British Social History. Harlow, UK: Pearson Longman.

Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. (2004). Social Control in Europe 1800-2000. Columbus, OH,: Ohio State University Press.

Emsley, Clive (2004). The Second World War and the police in England and Wales. In: Fijnaut, Cyrille ed. The Impact of World War II on Policing in North West Europe. Samenleving Criminaliteit en Strafrechtspleging (27). Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 151–172.

Emsley, Clive (2004). Control and legitimacy: the police in comparative perspective since circa 1800. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social Control in Europe, Volume 2 1800-2000. History of crime and criminal justice series. Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, pp. 193–209.

Emsley, Clive (2004). The Police. In: Bogdanor, Vernon ed. The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century. UK: Oxford University Press/British Academy, pp. 557–583.

Emsley, Clive (2003). Napoleon: Conquest, Reform and Reorganisation. UK: Longman.

Godfrey, Barry; Emsley, Clive and Dunstall, Graeme eds. (2003). Comparative Histories of Crime. UK: Willan Publishing.

Emsley, Clive (2003). Crime, police and penal policy. In: Wrigley, Chris ed. A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 438–452.

Emsley, Clive (2003). Policemen on a dark continent in an age of extremes. In: Oram, Gerard ed. Conflict and Legality: Policing mid-twentieth-century Europe. London: Francis Boutle, pp. 192–212.

Emsley, Clive (2003). The birth and development of the police. In: Newburn, Tim ed. Handbook of Policing. Willan Publishing, pp. 66–83.

Emsley, Clive (2003). La historia social evolutiva de la criminalidad y de los sistemas de justicia penal. Revista de Historia, 48, pp. 155–179.

Emsley, Clive (2003). Police, maintien de l'ordre et espaces urbains: une lecture anglaise. Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 50(1) pp. 5–12.

Emsley, Clive (2002). The English police: A unique development? In: Bottoms, Anthony and Tonry, Michael eds. Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice: A symposium in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 74–93.

Emsley, Clive (2002). La gendarmerie et l'état. In: Luc, Jean-Noël ed. Gendarmerie, État et Société au XIXe Siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, pp. 475–477.

Emsley, Clive and Clapson, Mark (2002). Street, beat and respectability : the culture and self-image of the Victorian and Edwardian policeman. In: Knafla, Louis A. ed. Policing and War in Europe: Criminal Justice History, Volume 16. Greenwood Press, pp. 107–131.

Marwick, Arthur; Emsley, Clive and Simpson, Wendy eds. (2001). Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-1955. Buckinghamshire: Open University Press.

Emsley, Clive (2000). The Policeman as worker: a comparative survey c. 1800-1940. International Review of Social History, 45(1) pp. 89–110.

Emsley, Clive (2000). The best way to keep the peace in a country : Napoleon's gendarmes and their legacy. In: Laven, David and Riall, Lucy eds. Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe. Oxford: Berg, pp. 257–274.

Emsley, Clive (2000). Britain and the French Revolution. UK: Longman.

Bessel, Richard and Emsley, Clive eds. (2000). Patterns of Provocation: Police and Public Disorder. UK: Berghahn Books.

Emsley, Clive; Levy, Rene and Rousseaux, Xavier (2000). The theory and practice of justice: laws, norms, deviance. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, pp. 155–166.

Emsley, Clive (2000). The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794. In: Davis, Michael T. ed. Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. London: Macmillan, pp. 56–68.

Emsley, Clive (1999). P.C. Dixon and Commissaire Maigret: some myths and realities in the development of English and continental police. In: Howell, David W. and Morgan, Kenneth O. eds. Crime, Protest and Police in Modern British Society: essays in memory of David J. V. Jones. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 97–117.

Emsley, Clive (1999). Law reform and penal reform in England in the age of the French Revolution. In: Rousseaux, Xavier; Bouchat, Marie-Sylvie Dupont and Vael, Claude eds. Revolutions et justice penale. Modeles francais et traditions nationales. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 319–331.

Emsley, Clive and Phillips, Sabine (1999). The Habsburg gendarmerie: a research agenda. German History, 17(2) pp. 241–250.

Emsley, Clive (1999). The origins of the modern police. History Today, 49(4) pp. 8–14.

Emsley, Clive (1999). Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. UK: Oxford University Press.

Emsley, Clive (1999). La historia de la delincuencia y la justicia penal (1750-1914): una relexion sobre los estudios actuales. In: Paniagua, J; Piqueras, J.A. and Sanz, V eds. Cultura social y politica en el mundo del trabajo. Biblioteca Historia Social (3). Valencia: Fundación Instituto de Historia Social, pp. 85–103.

Emsley, Clive (1999). A typology of nineteenth-century police. Crime, History and Societies, 3(1) pp. 29–44.

Emsley, Clive (1998). Les gendarmes et les paysans: vers une histoire institutionnelle et sociale comparée. In: Chauvaud, Frédéric and Petit, Jacques-Guy eds. L'histoire comtemporaine et les usages des archives judiciaires (1800-1939). Histoire et Archives, revue semestrielle de la Société des Amis des Archives de France (2). Paris: Honoré Champion, pp. 305–315.

Emsley, Clive (1997). The nation-state, the law and the peasant in nineteenth-century Europe. In: Rousseaux, Xavier and Lévy, René eds. Le pénal dans tous ses États: justice, États et sociétés en Europe (XIe-XXe siècles). Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (74). Brussels: Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, pp. 153–178.

Emsley, Clive (1997). Political police and the European nation-state in the nineteenth century. In: Mazower, Mark ed. The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, pp. 1–25.

Emsley, Clive (1997). The regulation of motor traffic in Britain. In: Kellens, Georges and Perez Dias, Claudine eds. Le Contrôle de la Circulation Routière dans les Pays de la CEE. Logiques sociales. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 77–89.

Emsley, Clive and Knafla, Louis A. eds. (1996). Crime Histories and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Emsley, Clive (1996). Albion's fatal attractions: Reflections upon the history of crime in England. In: Emsley, Clive and Knafla, Louis A eds. Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, pp. 67–85.

Emsley, Clive (1995). The archives of the English and Welsh police forces: a survey. In: Knafla, Louis A. and Binne, Susan W.S. eds. Law, Society and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 465–476.

Emsley, Clive (1991). The English Police: A Political and Social History. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.