Policing, Race and Racism

by Rowe; Mike

• ISBN13: 9781843920458
• ISBN10: 184392045X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Willan

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
1 Introduction	1	(19)
The murder of Stephen Lawrence: another instalment in a tale of failure	4	(3)
The Macpherson Report: an overview	7	(2)
Institutional racism: origins and controversies	9	(4)
About the book	13	(7)
2 Recruitment, retention and promotion	20	(23)
The historical context	22	(2)
Recruitment initiatives	24	(7)
The experience of minority ethnic officers	31	(2)
Legal and regulatory factors	33	(4)
Pragmatic factors	37	(3)
Police legitimacy	40	(3)
3 Racism and the role of police culture	43	(18)
Stereotyping and 'cop culture'	46	(8)
Police culture as an obstacle to reform	54	(4)
Rank-and-file culture as an obstacle to reform: the case of the Black Police Association	58	(3)
4 Community and race relations training	61	(17)
A brief history of police CRR training	63	(3)
Challenges in contemporary CRR training	66	(6)
Approaches to police CRR training: the challenge of the 'affective domain'	72	(2)
Reform through training: reconsidering the nature of police culture	74	(4)
5 Stop and search	78	(21)
Suspicious minds: stop and search before the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act	80	(3)
The PACE framework	83	(6)
Post-Macpherson developments	89	(4)
Discretion, street crime and measuring police performance	93	(2)
Section 60: a return to 'sus'?	95	(4)
6 Racist incidents, policing and 'hate crimes'	99	(21)
The conceptual ambiguities of hate crime	102	(5)
Applying hate crime law in practice	107	(10)
Concluding comments: reconsidering hate	117	(3)
7 Accountability and complaints	120	(17)
The principle of police accountability	122	(7)
Complaints against the police	129	(5)
Police-community relations: centralisation vs. devolved policing	134	(3)
8 Policing diversity	137	(16)
The impact of the Lawrence Inquiry	140	(4)
Policing diversity: conceptual framework and implications	144	(9)
9 Conclusion	153	(17)
The complexities of change	156	(4)
Dynamics of police reform	160	(1)
The social context of policing	161	(6)
The individuation of institutional racism	167	(3)
References	170	(10)
Index	180