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Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture de Ian Loader

Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Autor Ian Loader, Aogán Mulcahy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iun 2003
Citizens, it is said, have 'lost faith' in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high levels achieved during the 'golden age' of the 1950s. Successive decades of rising crime, political violence and urban disorder, miscarriages of justice, and declining effectiveness have left the police in what seems like a permanent crisis of legitimation. A once revered national institution has become thoroughly profane.In this major new work on the relationship between English policing and culture, Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess and revise this received sociological and popular wisdom on the fate that has befallen the English police. Paying close attention to the symbolic and cultural significance of the police, Loader and Mulcahy document the mix of profane and sacred sensibilities that struggle with one another to determine the contours of what they call English policing culture. They draw on documentary analysis of official 'representations' of policing, and oral historical research with citizens, police officers, former government ministers and civil servants, to show that, far from being 'demystified', policing is a cultural institution that remains deeply entangled with questions of subjectivity, recognition, belonging and collective identity.This cultural sociology of English policing sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 and offers an important appraisal of what is at stake in the contemporary cultural politics of policing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198299066
ISBN-10: 0198299060
Pagini: 398
Dimensiuni: 146 x 224 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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... a self-assured, richly textured thesis that is also innovative, engaging and politically committed ... it was a joy to read a book by two authors who reassert why the sociological meaning of policing remains such an important subject for sustained analysis.
... quite masterful ... In eight complementary and elegantly interwoven chapters, the authors present an erudite and informative book that quite simply should be required reading for scholars of institutional orders and ordering.
I found the book clear, direct, illuminating and fair ... The authors speak with wisdom about a troubling period of change in English life and views of authority, and they argue well the case for a hopeful democratic evolution, avoiding alarm or shortsighted, journalistic-style pedantry. This is an admirable work of sociocultural analysis.
... a sophisticated analysis ... superbly written, insightful and provocative. It deserves the widest readership.
The authors are to be congratulated for producing such an interesting and provocative analysis of the contemporary history of policing. The adoption of a cultural perspective sheds genuinely new light on such periods as the Thatcherite love-affair-gone-sour with the police ... They are also to be congratulated for telling the story so well: this book is genuinely a 'good read'.
This is a powerful, sweeping analysis of what I suspect future generations will see as a crucial period in English policing and society. It is a challenging but ultimately stimulating read. It offers lessons, points to mistakes and charts the fall from the sacred to the profane.
... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider.
The imagery of the English bobby is explored, and its powerful underlying meanings are associated with a fond collective memory of the social order of the past as opposed to the threatening disorder of the present.
... well researched and clearly structured.
... a major new work ... Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess received sociological and popular wisdom on the declining public confidence in the English police.

Notă biografică

Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002. Aogán Mulcahy graduated from University College Galway in 1987 with a BA in English, Sociology and Politics. He studied at the University of Stirling and at Northern Illinois University, before receiving his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. From 1991-1992 he was a research officer at the University of Leeds, and from 1997-1999 he was a research fellow in criminology at Keele University. He joined the sociology department at University College Dublin in 1999, where he is currently a college lecturer. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship.