The New Policing

Abstract

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 securitization 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 6: 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