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2023
This chapter outlines how in Britain, the police institution and the communities it polices are partners in a notional contract in which, for many years, the former’s control of groups and individuals, was largely accepted by the latter as necessary for the safety, security, health and welfare of wider society.
James, A, Huotari, V
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This chapter outlines how in Britain, the police institution and the communities it polices are partners in a notional contract in which, for many years, the former’s control of groups and individuals, was largely accepted by the latter as necessary for the safety, security, health and welfare of wider society.
James, A, Huotari, V
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2020
Chapter Two considers the legal and moral crossings from policeman to criminal. In To Live and Die in L.A., law and lawlessness are made exchangeable with each other, like real and counterfeit money, or cops who impersonate crooks. Moreover, with its “dirty” cops and car chase set piece, this film is read as a reiteration of themes and problems taken ...
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Chapter Two considers the legal and moral crossings from policeman to criminal. In To Live and Die in L.A., law and lawlessness are made exchangeable with each other, like real and counterfeit money, or cops who impersonate crooks. Moreover, with its “dirty” cops and car chase set piece, this film is read as a reiteration of themes and problems taken ...
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2023
Policing, perhaps more than any modern institution, has become the subject of intense political contestation. Police killings have sparked clashes in the public sphere and in the streets over the role of policing in society in diverse places such as the United States, Eswatini, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, and Iran.
Paul T. Clarke, Julia Hornberger
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Policing, perhaps more than any modern institution, has become the subject of intense political contestation. Police killings have sparked clashes in the public sphere and in the streets over the role of policing in society in diverse places such as the United States, Eswatini, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, and Iran.
Paul T. Clarke, Julia Hornberger
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India Review, 2008
Political Violence and the Police in India. By K. S. Subramanian. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007. 264 pages. Paperback $29.95.
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Political Violence and the Police in India. By K. S. Subramanian. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007. 264 pages. Paperback $29.95.
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Annual Review of Anthropology, 2018
The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article reviews recent anthropological work on police, situating it in longer-term disciplinary concerns. I begin with the connection between policing and personhood, exploring
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The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article reviews recent anthropological work on police, situating it in longer-term disciplinary concerns. I begin with the connection between policing and personhood, exploring
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New Scientist, 2015
The relationship between law enforcers and the communities they protect is broken.
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The relationship between law enforcers and the communities they protect is broken.
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1999
Since the publication of the first edition ofPolice and Policingin 1989, the amount of research being conducted on the police as well as public interest in the issues concerning the role of law enforcement has grown considerably. This second, complementary edition examines new issues and changes in law enforcement since 1989, drawing from the most ...
Dennis Kenney, Robert P. McNamara
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Since the publication of the first edition ofPolice and Policingin 1989, the amount of research being conducted on the police as well as public interest in the issues concerning the role of law enforcement has grown considerably. This second, complementary edition examines new issues and changes in law enforcement since 1989, drawing from the most ...
Dennis Kenney, Robert P. McNamara
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Police Socialization and Police Competence
The British Journal of Sociology, 1984Defining competent practice is an exercise in 'squaring the circle'. Extrapolating the criteria of 'competent practice' in relation to any occupation runs the risk of placing the social scientist in the role of presgriptive evaluation. The object of this article is not to render another exhortatory 'analysis' of policing but to indicate how 'competence'
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