The Governance of Policing and Security Ironies, Myths and Paradoxes

by Hoogenboom, Bob; Punch, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780230542655
• ISBN10: 0230542654
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Policing today involves many different state and non-state actors. This book traces the process of unbounding policing, exploring the way that boundaries between public policing, regulators, inspectorates, intelligence services and private security are blurring.

Author Biography

BOB HOOGENBOOM is Professor of Policing and Security Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Professor of Forensic Business Studies, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands and also Advisor to the Dutch Police Academy. As a historian the author developed an interest in policing. He has published on policing, inspectorates, regulators, intelligence and private security. He is a member of the Netherlands Intelligence Study Association and worked for universities, the private sector (forensic accounting) and teaches policing at the Dutch Police Academy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Within Public Policing: Gradual Centralisation	p. 11
Within Public Policing: Fictional and Factual Policing	p. 17
Blurring Boundaries and the Unbearable Lightness of Criminological Discourse	p. 39
On Old Folks and Things That Pass Away: Criminology in 2018	p. 57
The Governance of Policing and Security	p. 73
‘Grey Intelligence’: The Private and Informal Future	p. 82
The Sopranos: Narrative Knowledge to Disrupt Academic Language	p. 94
Ironies, Paradoxes and the Seven Plagues of Policing and Security	p. 114
Technopoly	p. 130
Blinded by the Light: The Interweaving of (Organised) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime and Terrorism	p. 149
Unsafe and Unsound Practices	p. 169
Myths in Policing and Security	p. 189
Epilogue: Conversations with Clifford Shearing (II)	p. 200
Notes	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 222
Index	p. 235
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