Joanne Klein, Chair of the Department of History, attended the European Social Science History Conference in Vienna, Austria this past week.
At the conference, Klein organized a criminal justice network session titled: “Crossing the Line: European Police Culture Across Ranks.”
Klein as well presented her paper, “The 1902 Liverpool Police Scandal: the Public Exposure of Conspiracy, False Imprisonment, and Desperation to Hide Corruption” during the session.
Klein’s research centers on the history of policing in Europe, and her recent book Invisible Men: the Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, 1900-1939,is focused on the lives of police constables in Britain.