How Climate Made Policing History: Little Ice Age and City Policing

Efficacious attempts at centralised city policing began in earnest in the eighteenth-century, in Dublin.  A series of poor harvests and food rioting stemming from cold winters caused by the final stage of the Little Ice Age resulted in several justice administration reforms in the Irish Parliament, eventually culminating in establishment of a day police. A History of Policing Cities (CUP, 2026) explores how city policing emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age.