Author: Alison Wakefield
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781439841358
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Drawn from the proceedings at the 2009 IPES conference, this book examines comparative policing and how the socioeconomic changes in the world have affected policing practices. The editors analyze contemporary and international developments in policing in the context of the global economic and political transformations that are changing the security concerns of all countries. The book identifies and illuminates the global patterns linking the varied issues and frames the chapters as revealing commentaries, illustrations, and case studies of policing practices that restore order. Leading contributors discuss security challenges as well as the international political economy in which policing occurs.
Author: Volker Eick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926958293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The neoliberalization of policing and the policing of neoliberalization are worldwide phenomena. While the first trend effects the organization of policing, the second trend brings about new policing strategies executed by state police, commercial security contractors and by nonprofit police forces. This volume for the first time brings together empirical studies comparing policing strategies from Australia, Britain, France, Germany, India, Lithuania, Sweden and the United States. ENDORSEMENTS "This book illuminates the ways in which the implementation of neoliberal] policies has also entailed an intensified militarization of urban space as local police forces--which now include both commercial and nonprofit agents--promote new forms of surveillance, social control and repression within local populations." -Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is co-editor of "Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City." "Eick and Briken have amassed a rich collection of new and theoretically important work that makes this book an absolute 'must read' for critical scholars of all persuasions." -Laura Huey is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, Co-editor of" Surveillance & Society"and author of "invisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security Gap "(UTP 2012). "The editors have brought together authors from a wide range of contexts and backgrounds who scrutinize state and private policing as a form of wage labor, as a set of practices to govern populations and as a means to secure capitalist accumulation under actually existing neoliberalism. ...a very welcome addition to the literature. Critical scholars in a variety of fields will surely learn much from it." -Bernd Belina, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Professor of Human Geography, Co-editor of" Kriminologisches Journal" and author of" Raum, Uberwachung, Kontrolle" (Munster 2006) CONTRIBUTORS Kendra Briken, Volker Eick, Luis A. Fernandez, Anibel Ferus-Comelo, Peter Gahan, Melina Germes, Bill Harley, Arunas Juska, Andreas Lohner, Margit Mayer, Samantha Ponting, Ann Rodenstedt, Chris Scholl, Graham Sewell, Alison Wakefield, Andrew Wallace, Charles Woolfson
Author: Markus-Michael Müller
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1783606991
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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In the eyes of the global media, modern Mexico has become synonymous with crime, violence and insecurity. But while media fascination and academic engagement has focussed on the drug war, an equally dangerous phenomenon has taken root. In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Müller argues that what has emerged in Mexico is not just a punitive urban democracy, in which those at the social and political margins face growing violence and exclusion. More alarmingly, it would seem that clientelism in the region is morphing into a private, political protection racket. Vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the implications of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly widespread across Latin America.
Author: Daanika Gordon
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479814059
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"This book explores the relationships between racial segregation, urban governance, and policing in a postindustrial city. Drawing on rich ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, Gordon shows how the police augmented racial inequalities in service provision and social control by aligning their priorities with those of the city's urban growth coalition"--
Author: Kiely, Elizabeth
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529202973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies. The international context of this book is complemented by the inclusion of specific policy examples across the themes of work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness and the reintegration of justice-involved persons. This book incites the reader to consider how we can reclaim the best of the ‘social’ in social policy for the twenty-first century.
Author: Nathaniel Graulich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Neoliberalism
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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A variety of studies have examined the role of economic structures in policing. These inquiries offer insight into revenue-based law enforcement activities but are simultaneously limited by blind spots in theorization. Reviewing these studies, it is apparent the criminal justice system can and is used to gain revenue for a multitude of public and private organizations. Furthermore, it is clear this is not a new phenomenon in the United States. Nor is the disparate impact of criminal justice activity on segments of U.S. society such as poor or homeless citizens, minority populations including black and latinx populations, and LGBTQ+ communities. Despite these findings, there has been little attention put on how the role of capital in policing and the disparate impacts of policing on populations in the U.S. may be connected and further how tiered justice outcomes may be a design element of America's policing structure. As such, most of the research to date has not examined how revenue-focused criminal justice processes intentionally or unintentionally impact citizens. When research has examined these aspects there has been disagreement about where the motivation to engage in revenue-based policing activity originates. While several studies point to uncontrollable economic downturn to explain shifts in criminal justice institutions, many factors were left out when researchers came to these conclusions. This leaves relevant elements inadequately explored and limits the external validity of findings. While these studies have been able to capture evidence of rises in reported use of policing for profit, theoretical assumptions in these works led to methodological issues that limit findings and need to be examined using alternative methodology.
Author: Elizabeth Kiely
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529203015
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Book Description
From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies. The international context of this book is complemented by the inclusion of specific policy examples across the themes of work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness and the reintegration of justice-involved persons. This book incites the reader to consider how we can reclaim the best of the 'social' in social policy for the twenty-first century.
Author: Antoinette Verhage
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030836851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations. Demands for more efficiency and effectiveness test police organizations which are often resistant to change. This book uses the concept of the abstract police to describe the way in which police organizations have tried to adapt to these new evolutions and the consequences. The chapters stem from a conference called “Street Policing in a Smart Society” which sought to frame and analyse these developments in policing. In this book, the concept of the abstract police is introduced, analysed and then challenged from different angles, looking at the evolutions related to technology, plural policing, police discretion and police decision making. As such, the book is a reflection of current debates on policing and police organization, aiming to give input to the debate by providing new insights on police and police work.
Author: Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479843970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Winner, 2016 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Latino/a Section The intimate stories of 147 deportees that exposes the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass deportations in the U.S. The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is a disturbing pattern in the population deported: 97% of deportees are sent to Latin America or the Caribbean, and 88% are men, many of whom were originally detained through the U.S. criminal justice system. Weaving together hard-hitting critique and moving first-person testimonials, Deported tells the intimate stories of people caught in an immigration law enforcement dragnet that serves the aims of global capitalism. Tanya Golash-Boza uses the stories of 147 of these deportees to explore the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass deportation in the United States, showing how this crisis is embedded in economic restructuring, neoliberal reforms, and the disproportionate criminalization of black and Latino men. In the United States, outsourcing creates service sector jobs and more of a need for the unskilled jobs that attract immigrants looking for new opportunities, but it also leads to deindustrialization, decline in urban communities, and, consequently, heavy policing. Many immigrants are exposed to the same racial profiling and policing as native-born blacks and Latinos. Unlike the native-born, though, when immigrants enter the criminal justice system, deportation is often their only way out. Ultimately, Golash-Boza argues that deportation has become a state strategy of social control, both in the United States and in the many countries that receive deportees.
Author: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816670005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
