The new policing

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The new policing

Eugene McLaughlin

SAGE, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index

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Description

The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including: - the core purpose of contemporary policework; - the reconfiguration of police culture; - organisational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; - the managerial reforms and professional; innovations that have been implemented in recent years; - the future of policing, security and crime control. In offering this discussion of the nature and role of the police, The New Policing illustrates the need to re-examine and re-think the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Examining evidence from the United Kingdom, the United States and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society. This ground-breaking text has been constructed to ensure that it touches on all the key issues that any course on police and policing will cover. It is an essential purchase for all students of policing and criminal justice, and academics and professionals working in this field.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICE Cultural construction of the English Police The iconic PC: George Dixon The Blue Lamp The Murder of PC George Dixon PART TWO: THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICE Michael Banton and The Policeman in the Community Policing British Pre-Modernity Policing American Modernity Policing British Modernity PART THREE: POLICE STUDIES Traditional Perspectives Ethnographic Perspectives Marxist Perspectives Administrative Perspectives Left realist Perspectives PART FOUR:POLICE STUDIES New Perspectives Security Governance The future configuration of Policing Nodalization Residualization Managerialization Re-sovereignization Global Securitzation PART FIVE: POLICING CRIME AND DISORDER Insecurities of the Metropolis The Bright Blue Lamp The Dimming Blue Lamp Relighting the Blue Lamp? Cultural Disintegration: the broken 'spectacle' of policing PART SIX:POLICE CULTURE Policing the multi-cultural society Beyond Scarman Macpherson and 'Institutional Racism' Beyond Macpherson The Secret Policeman Explaining Racist Culture De-contaminating Racist Culture PART SEVEN: POLICE GOVERNANCE Officer Level Accountability Force Level Accountability Democratic Accountability 'New Localism' PART EIGHT: POLICING NEW TERRORISM The darkening skies over the metropolis The rules have changed Policing the post 7/7 Terrorist Threat Shoot-to-Kill-to-Protect What kind of police force do we want? 2012 Vision

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