Eugene McLaughlin 
The New Policing [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

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

Circa l’autore

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.