Policing the Periphery -- Polizei, Gewalt und Staatsformierung im kolonialen South Carolina.

The article discusses the application and adaptation of law enforcement institutions developed in England in the British North American colony of South Carolina. After introductory remarks on the processes of state formation in early modern Europe, the author describes the social and political context of South Carolina in the 18th century, particularly the evolution of the colonial system of civil and criminal justice administration. He emphasizes the importance of South Carolina's situation as a plantation economy with a slave population majority for the development of police practices designed to uphold slavery and to implicitly encourage vigilante justice.