Journal of Belgian History, LV, 2025, 3-4

This double thematic issue, containing nine articles, explores the history of the police and public order in Belgium. The guest editors are Jonas Campion (University of Quebec), Margo De Koster (Ghent University), Antoine Renglet (UC Louvain), and Xavier Rousseaux (UC Louvain). In addition to a historiographical introduction by the four guest editors, the issue includes articles by Virginie Coumans, Luc Keunings, Christophe Loir, and Thomas Schlesser on the Dictionnaire de police municipale by Chief Commissioner P.-J.-F. Van Bersel (French); an article by Jonas Maas and Pieter Leloup on the regulation of prostitution in Brussels (Dutch); by Torsten Feys on the Belgian foreigners’ police (Dutch); by Maïté Van Vyve on the 1894 attack in Liège carried out by anarchists (Dutch); by Antoine Renglet on the purges of police commissioners after the Second World War (French); by Michaël Amara and Arnaud Charon on information management within the Gendarmerie (French); by Jonas Campion and Élie Teicher on the interplay between police and film (French); by Vincent Mazy and Xavier Rousseaux on the territorial deployment of Belgian gendarmerie barracks (French). The issue also contains new book reviews.