Law And Enforcement In Ptolemaic Egypt John Bauschatz by John Bauschatz 9781107434707, 9781107037137, 110743470X, 1107037131 instant download after payment.

This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in
Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC) and argues that Ptolemaic police officials
enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels
of society when crimes were  committed. Throughout the nearly 300 years
of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas of the Egyptian
countryside called on local police  officials to investigate crimes; hold
trials; and arrest, question and sometimes even imprison wrongdoers.
Drawing on a large body of textual evidence for the cultural, social and
economic interactions between state and citizen, John Bauschatz
demonstrates that the police system was efficient, effective, and
largely independent of central government controls. No other law
enforcement organization exhibiting such a degree of autonomy and
flexibility appears in extant evidence from the rest of the Greco-Roman
world.