creators_name: Campion, Jonas
type: thesis
datestamp: 2010-06-07 19:13:21
lastmod: 2015-06-24 08:14:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: Le rétablissement de la légalité policière après la Seconde Guerre mondiale: les gendarmeries belge, française et la Koninklijke marechaussee néerlandaise
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 2_5_2_6
subjects: 5_1_14
subjects: 5_2_3
subjects: 7_4
subjects: 7_5
full_text_status: none
keywords: gendarmerie rijkswacht marechaussee juridictions administrative    administrative court administratieve rechter    

WOII WWII "Seconde Guerre mondiale"
"presse professionnelle"	"trade press"	vakpers
Libération	Liberation	Bevrijding
épuration	purge "repression of collaboration"	zuivering
"occupation allemande"	"German Occupation"	"Duitse bezetting"
collaboration		collaboratie


abstract: This PhD thesis is situated at the crossroad of the history of social control institutions, the history of military occupations, and the history of the repression of collaboration after the Second World War in Europe. It investigates and compares the post-war experiences of the Belgian gendarmerie, the French gendarmerie, and the Dutch Koninklijke Marechaussee, within the context of the multiple dynamics involved in the re-establishment of their legitimacy as legal police authorities. This complex reality is best defined as the whole of processes that allow to provide the armed forces with the necessary human, material and moral capabilities to perform their functions in the newly freed society. Our analysis of the continuities and ruptures marking the development of the gendarmerie forces between 1930 and 1950 is concerned with the evolution of their organisational structures, of their personnel, and of their professional identity. More in particular, we closely examine the ways in which they underwent mechanisms of ‘epuration’ (via extra-legal, administrative and judicial procedures), as a result of their activity within occupied territories. Overall, this examination reveals that although the armed police forces did evolve on the human and structural level and in terms of duties, in line with the evolution of European society, the professional values underpinning this development remained unchanged. These continued to correspond to the professional logic of serving the public cause and the political authorities, by responding to the need for processes of social regulation. 
date: 2009-09
date_type: completed
pages: 588
institution: UCL/Paris IV Sorbonne
department: Histoire, art et archéologie
thesis_type: phd
citation:   Campion, Jonas  (2009) Le rétablissement de la légalité policière après la Seconde Guerre mondiale: les gendarmeries belge, française et la Koninklijke marechaussee néerlandaise.  PhD thesis, UCL/Paris IV Sorbonne.