The New Policing / Edition 1

by Eugene McLaughlin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803989054
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/04/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eugene Mc Laughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

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

Editorial Reviews

'A lucid, comprehensive and stimulating state-of-the-art analysis of the bewilderingly complex contemporary changes in policing. This will be a standard resource for students and scholars of policing for a long time to come.' -
Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology
London School of Economics and Political Science

'Highly original, The New Policing is a significant contribution whose implications extend well beyond the British context and reflect on contemporary policing across the English-speaking world .' -
Pat O’Malley
Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University, Canada

'Deeply informed, penetrating, challenging and readable. Eugene Mc Laughlin analyses 'the state we're in' with respect to policing' -
P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Political Sociology
University of Reading, UK

'The landscape of police and policing is rapidly changing. Mc Laughlin locates this change in the media imagery of policing and in the very real fragmented, global context of contemporary policing. When I got to the end, I wanted the debate to continue. This book is valuable in taking our discussions about policing and policing from a clear documentation of how much has changed in policing England and Wales in the last 20 years.' -
Elizabeth Stanko

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