ABSTRACT
The early nineteenth century was a period of profound institutional development in law enforcement and civic administration in Scotland as policing shifted towards a 'new model'. This chapter explores how ideas about the relationship between masculinity and governance shaped policing structures institutionally and in practice. It also proved to be instrumental in fashioning new notions about the gendered nature of civic governance, householder expectations, and police work. This chapter has argued that the new police model that was introduced in this period was a major social force for fashioning, embodying, and transmitting old and new notions of governing masculinity in these areas. This chapter examines the role of changing policing arrangements in Scottish burghs in projecting ideas of governing masculinity between c. 1780 to 1850. It explores how ideas about the relationship between masculinity and governance shaped policing structures institutionally and in practice.
