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The New Policing


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Criminology | Police Studies

November 2006 | 264 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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
  • 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 U.K., the USA, 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 will be an essential purchase for all students of policing and criminal justice, and academics and professionals working in this field.
 
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

'A lucid, comprehensive and stimulating state-of-the-art analysis of the bewilderingly complex contemporary changes in policing. This will be a standard resource for students and scholars of policing for a long time to come.' -
Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology
London School of Economics and Political Science


'Highly original, The New Policing is a significant contribution whose implications extend well beyond the British context and reflect on contemporary policing across the English-speaking world.' -
Pat O’Malley
Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University, Canada


'Deeply informed, penetrating, challenging and readable. Eugene McLaughlin analyses 'the state we're in' with respect to policing' -
P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Political Sociology
University of Reading, UK


'The landscape of police and policing is rapidly changing. McLaughlin locates this change in the media imagery of policing and in the very real fragmented, global context of contemporary policing. When I got to the end, I wanted the debate to continue. This book is valuable in taking our discussions about policing and policing from a clear documentation of how much has changed in policing England and Wales in the last 20 years.' -
Elizabeth Stanko



Excellent book, well structured and ideal for students on my course.

Mr Peter Norton
Uniformed public services, Sheffield College
March 20, 2014

I use this text to support my teaching of policing and police powers.

It's a highly useful addition to the set books I recommend to students to understand the context in which policing takes place.

Mr Graham Hooper
Department of Law and Criminal Justice, Canterbury Christ Church University
February 27, 2014

A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary changes in policing. A useful text for students studying policing.

Mr Mark Flippance
Department of Health & Social Studies, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
December 1, 2013

A valuable and excellent text that examines the changing landscape of policing.

Miss Sumiyya Shafiq
Criminology and Community Justice, Sheffield Hallam University
February 9, 2013

This text addressses the challenges facing contemporary policing within the context of historical representations. It encompasses the social and cultural aspects of policing - as well as the theoretical.

Ms Diane Jones
Department of Criminology, University of Leicester
January 18, 2013

A must read for students studying criminology and criminal justice, especially those who have chosen policing models. It provides thought provoking analysis of contemporary policing and the constant changes that it faces.

Dr Mark Hawes
Ctr for Criminal Justice & Criminology, Swansea University
July 19, 2012

An absolutely excellent book, vital to any student studying Police Services as part of their undergraduate course. It is extremely informative and asks students to consider policing services in a number of diverse ways. A book that is hard to put down once you start reading it!

Mrs Fiona Porter
Dept of Social Sciences & Humanities, Bradford University
June 28, 2012

An excellent read, very thorough and I shall be recommending it to all my students

Mr Peter Norton
Uniformed public services, Sheffield College
September 8, 2011

This books charts the crucial issues and debates surrounding contemporary polcing, including the framework of policng, security, regulation and governance.

Mr Stephen Whattam
applied criminal justice studies, university of bradford
August 29, 2011

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter Three Pdf

Chapter One PDF


Eugene McLaughlin

Eugene McLaughlin 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... More About Author

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