Policing as Social Discipline
Policing as Social Discipline

Author: Satnam Choongh

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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This book challenges the traditional idea that policing is the first stage in a criminal justice process, in which the police use their powers of criminal investigation to feed cases into the legal process for authoritative legal resolution. The author argues that the political space allowed to the police on the streets and in the police station allows them to pursue a different agenda of social discipline, targeted at certain sections of the community. This alternative perspective provides new sociological insights into the use of police powers in modern society. The book examines the fairness of police processes by using empirical data to analyse the impact that such powers have on the lives of those who regularly become the objects of police attention.

Policing as Social Discipline
Policing as Social Discipline

Author: Satnam Choongh

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781383015614

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With Policing as Social Discipline, Satnam Choongh challenges the traditional idea that policing is the first stage in the criminal justice process, and argues that the police are able to pursue a very different agenda of social discipline.

Police in the Hallways
Police in the Hallways

Author: Kathleen Nolan

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1452933081

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Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students

History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment
History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment

Author: Peter Joyce

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-19

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3031368924

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This engaging textbook provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales. It vividly illustrates the multi-disciplinary nature of criminology and penology by providing important insights into the social and political issues that shaped the development and operations of the criminal justice system and its responses to both crime and disorder. Using key text boxes, this book highlights key people, theorists, foundational principles and events throughout. Part One discusses the nature of crime and forms of punishment between 1689 and 1750 and the penological concerns regarding the aims of punishment. Part Two focuses on crime and disorder between 1750 and 1850, examining the impact of urbanization on criminal activity and it considers the background and state responses to key episodes of public disorder. Part Three covers the development of policing 1689-1856 and the contribution to policing made by reformers and the implementation of police reform. Part Four deals with a number of issues affecting crime and punishment between 1850 and 1920 including episodes such as Irish Home Rule within the context of ‘high policing’. It evaluates changes to the nature and role of prisons that occurred in this period. This student-friendly book contains end of chapter questions which summarise and enable further discussion.

Police Culture in a Changing World
Police Culture in a Changing World

Author: Bethan Loftus

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0191629723

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This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. By drawing on over 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing in urban and rural areas and interviews with over 60 officers, the author assesses what impact three decades of social, economic and political change have had on police culture. She offers new understandings of the policing of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the ways in which reform initiatives are accommodated and resisted within the police. The author also explores the attempts of one force to effect cultural change both to improve the working conditions of staff and to deliver a more effective and equitable service to all groups in society. Beginning with a review of the literature on police culture from 30 years ago, the author goes on to outline the new social, economic and political field of contemporary British policing. Taking this as a starting point, the remaining chapters present the main findings of the empirical research in what is a a truly comprehensive analysis of present day policing culture.

The Police and Social Conflict
The Police and Social Conflict

Author: Nigel Fielding

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1135310602

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Policing remains one of the most controversial areas of criminal justice. Recent years have seen major changes in every aspect of policing: new constructions of the police mission, new ways of delivering police services and new arrangements for police accountability. The police have had to respond to international terrorism, international organized crime, the new faces of migration and asylum, globalization and the reconstitution of societies in the post-Communist and Islamic world. This completely revised second edition argues that through these changes enduring and fundamental divisions can be traced. The book is relevant to those studying criminology, police studies, sociology, social policy and law, wherever their interests touch on the police.

A Critical Theory of Police Power
A Critical Theory of Police Power

Author: Mark Neocleous

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1788735218

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The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police, able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order, but with its very fabrication, especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage labour. By situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the heart of the politics of security, the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime. The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider administrative powers of the state, and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of economic relations.

Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

Author: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1529223679

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Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.