The New Policing

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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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 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.

Review :
′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