The New Policing

by Eugene McLaughlin

• ISBN13: 9780803989054
• ISBN10: 0803989059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

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; organizational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; the managerial reforms and professional innovations that have been implemented in recent years; and 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 UK, the USA, and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society.

Table of Contents

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

The Sociological Construction of the Police

Michael Banton and The Policeman in the Community

Policing British Pre-Modernity

Policing American Modernity

Policing British Modernity

Police Studies

Traditional Perspectives

Ethnographic Perspectives

Marxist Perspectives

Administrative Perspectives

Left realist Perspectives

Police Studies

New Perspectives

Security Governance

The future configuration of Policing

Nodalization

Residualization

Managerialization

Re-sovereignization

Global Securitzation

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

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

Police Governance

Officer Level Accountability

Force Level Accountability

Democratic Accountability

'New Localism'

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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