Abstract
This essay chronicles the contribution of leading international policing scholar – David H. Bayley. Although he may first and foremost be regarded as a political scientist, it is in the field of international policing studies where he became preeminent. The article makes the case that Professor Bayley is a policing research pioneer and it draws upon interviews and correspondence with him, and those who know him, as well as a review of his extensive body of scholarship spanning seven decades.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to acknowledge invaluable help from: Robin Engel, Ed Maguire, Steve, Chermak, Otwin Marenin, Dilip K. Das and, of course, Distinguished Professor David H. Bayley.
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Notes
1. Excerpt from President Truman’s address to the opening session of United Nations Conference on International Organisation (20/4/1945). US Department of State Bulletin. Available at http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450425a.html Retrieved 20/2/2015.
2. US Department of State: Office of the Historian. Available at https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isolationism. Retrieved 20/2/2015.
3. Interview with David H. Bayley. Hereafter in this paper, any unreferenced quotations are derived from interviews and personal correspondence with Professor Bayley.
4. Quotation taken from rear cover of paperback edition published 1971. New York: The Free Press.
5. Personal correspondence with Professor Robin S. Engel.
6. Personal correspondence with Professor Steve Chermak.
7. Personal correspondence with Professor Ed Maguire.
8. Personal correspondence with Professor Robin S. Engel.
9. Personal correspondence with Professor Ed Maguire.