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Policing Insecurity

Author : Niels Uildriks
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073913230X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Policing Insecurity written by Niels Uildriks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound distrust commonly characterizes not only the relationship between citizens and state institutions, but also social, as well as inter- and intra-state relations. This impacts the effectiveness and quality of the service provided by state institutions. The degree to which police and judicial reforms are able to generate trust on these fronts is therefore an important yardstick to judge their relevance under varying circumstances of 'post-authoritarian rule', but this question is largely ignored inthe current literature on policing and reform. From this perspective, Policing Insecurity: Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America suggests an agenda of future reforms for the region, drawing and building upon policing reform experiences throughout the Latin America, looking at issues such as impunity, professionalization, community policing, as well as accountability and training of the police. By explicitly linking issues of state-social trust, democratic transition, human rights, and security, these case studies provide a basis for the wider discussion in the book about prerequisites for the success or failure of police reforms, thus adding to our empirical and theoretical knowledge in these areas and introducing an importantdimension to the literature on police reform, security, and human rights.

The Vigilant Citizen

Author : Thijs Jeursen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479816558
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Vigilant Citizen written by Thijs Jeursen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the problematic behavior of private citizens—and not just the police force itself—contributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racism “Warning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force. If I don’t call the police, my neighbor will!” Signs like this can be found affixed to telephone poles on streets throughout the US, warning trespassers that the community is an active participant in its own policing efforts. Thijs Jeursen calls this phenomenon, in which individuals take on the responsibility of defending themselves and share with the police the duty to mitigate everyday insecurity, “vigilant citizenship.” Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Miami and sharing the stories and experiences of police officers, private security guards, neighborhood watch groups, civil society organizations, and a broad range of residents and activists, Jeursen uses the lens of vigilant citizenship to extend the analysis of police brutality beyond police encounters, focusing on the often blurred boundaries between policing actors and policed citizens and highlighting the many ways in which policing produces and perpetuates inequality and injustice. As a central premise in everyday policing, vigilant citizenship frames racist and violent policing as matters of personal blame and individual guilt, ultimately downplaying the realities of how systemically race operates in policing and US society more broadly. The Vigilant Citizen illustrates how a focus on individualized responsibility for security exacerbates and legitimizes existing inequalities, a situation that must be addressed to end institutionalized racism in politics and the justice system.

Crime and Insecurity

Author : Adam Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113598915X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Insecurity written by Adam Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns over insecurity have become central issues in political debates across Europe and the western world, and crucial changes have followed in the wake of these concerns. This book contributes to an understanding of these developments.

Policing Insecurity

Author : DON MICHAEL. ADENIJI I
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781312335400
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Policing Insecurity written by DON MICHAEL. ADENIJI I and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing is an act that must be all encompassing. Despite huge numbers of rebellions recorded in medieval historical volumes and the ever present news of several ongoing rebellions in the world today blamed: on poor governance; lack of basic infrastructures; repressions of citizenry and high poverty incidence; its quite surprising that huge numbers of citizens still remain law abiding and abhors challenging the power of the state. The successes recorded in several rebellions in modern time -like the Arab Spring that swept through and reshaped history in several countries the Middle East and Africa- many reasoned should have been the tonic for citizens' lack of tolerance for suppressive and despotic regimes. States traditionally must protect its citizens from the fall out of security breeches. Terrorism is a new form of treat to Nigerian society which has become major issue in recent years. Efforts of the Nigerian Security Forces has proven weak against the power of this negative forces.

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing

Author : Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
ISBN 13 : 9781032264585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing written by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti and published by Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people living in 'favelas' in Brazil and critically investigating the discourse of state actors. It combines original ethnographic data with critical analysis to expand understandings of violence and control in urban and postcolonial contexts. This study challenges dominant practices and notions of security and control. Its objective is to decolonise knowledge and shed light on issues relating to policing, coercion, and the great socioeconomic, historical and spatial inequalities that shape the lives of millions of people in the Global South. The findings of this book expose the exacerbation of social problems by the expansion of the penal and crime industry, unsettling the applicability and universalism of mainstream managerial criminology. The evidence reveals that new modes of securitisation have not addressed long-standing issues of sexism, racism, classism and brutalisation in the police. Moreover, through the increasing use of methods of control and incarceration, security programmes have failed to prevent diverse forms of violence and challenge the expansion of organised crime. Instead they have exacerbated the inequalities that affect the most marginalised populations. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the social injustices that exists in the Global South.

Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing

Author : Graeme Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009235884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing written by Graeme Blair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can societies effectively reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between the police and citizens? In recent decades, perhaps the most celebrated innovation in police reform has been the introduction of community policing, where citizens are involved in building channels of dialogue and improving police-citizen collaboration. Despite the widespread adoption of community policing in the United States and increasingly in the developing world, there is still limited credible evidence about whether it realistically increases trust in the police or reduces crime. Through simultaneously coordinated field experiments in a diversity of political contexts, this book presents the outcome of a major research initiative into the efficacy of community policing. Scholars from around the world uncover whether, and under what conditions, this highly influential strategy for tackling crime and insecurity is effective. With its highly innovative approach to cumulative learning, this project represents a new frontier in the study of police reform.

Policing Insecurity Today

Author : Didier Bigo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403967046
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Policing Insecurity Today written by Didier Bigo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on research and interviews with policemen, armed forces, and intelligence services explores the fading division between internal and external security. It traces the genealogy of the discourses on (in)security and explains how politicians now benefit from the fear and feelings of insecurity of their constituents. It considers the transformation of war and crime, the increasing opacity of political violence, divisions between the police and the military, changes in policing and defense and the complex relationship between institutions charged with maintaining security.

Crime and Insecurity

Author : Adam Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989222
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Insecurity written by Adam Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns over insecurity and questions of safety have become central issues in social and political debates across Europe and the western world. Crucial changes have followed as a result, such as a redefinition of the role of the state in relation to policing - a central theme of this book - and an explosion in the growth of private policing. These developments have, in their turn, heightened feelings of insecurity and safety, particularly where populations have become increasingly mobile and societies more socially fragmented, culturally diverse and economically fragmented. Responses to insecurity now increasingly inform decisions made by governments, organisations and ordinary people in their social interactions. This book makes a key contribution to an understanding of these developments, approaching the subject from a range of perspectives, across several different disciplines. The three parts of the book look at broader theoretical and thematic issues, then at cross-national and pan-European developments and debates in European governance, and finally explore specific examples of local issues of community safety and the broader implications these have. Leading figures in the field draw upon criminological, legal, social, and political theory to shed new light on what has become one of the most intractable problems facing western societies.

Insecure Guardians

Author : Zoha Waseem
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787389707
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Insecure Guardians written by Zoha Waseem and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack of adequate reform has upheld institutional weaknesses. This exploration of policing in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital, reveals many colonial continuities. Both civilian and military regimes continue to ensure the suppression of the policed via this institution, itself established to militarily subjugate and exploit in the interests of the ruling class. However, contemporary policing practice is not a simple product of its colonial heritage: it has also evolved to confront new challenges and political realities. Based on extensive fieldwork and around 200 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly ‘postcolonial condition of policing’. Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order and ensuring national security. This is evident not only in spectacular displays of violence and malpractice, but also in police officers’ routine work. Caught in the middle of the country’s armed conflicts, their encounters with both state and society are a story of insecurity and uncertainty.

The Vigilant Citizen

Author : Thijs Jonathan Jeursen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479816569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Vigilant Citizen written by Thijs Jonathan Jeursen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the problematic behavior of private citizens--and not just the police force itself--contributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racism"Warning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force. If I don't call the police, my neighbor will!"Signs like this can be found affixed to telephone poles on streets throughout the US, warning trespassers that the community is an active participant in its own policing efforts. Thijs Jeursen calls this phenomenon, in which individuals take on the responsibility of defending themselves and share with the police the duty to mitigate everyday insecurity, "vigilant citizenship."Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Miami and sharing the stories and experiences of police officers, private security guards, neighborhood watch groups, civil society organizations, and a broad range of residents and activists, Jeursen uses the lens of vigilant citizenship to extend the analysis of police brutality beyond police encounters, focusing on the often blurred boundaries between policing actors and policed citizens and highlighting the many ways in which policing produces and perpetuates inequality and injustice. As a central premise in everyday policing, vigilant citizenship frames racist and violent policing as matters of personal blame and individual guilt, ultimately downplaying the realities of how systemically race operates in policing and US society more broadly. The Vigilant Citizen illustrates how a focus on individualized responsibility for security exacerbates and legitimizes existing inequalities, a situation that must be addressed to end institutionalized racism in politics and the justice system.

Police, Provocation, Politics

Author : Deniz Yonucu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501762184
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Police, Provocation, Politics written by Deniz Yonucu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones. Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and dissident populations live, provocations of counterviolence and conflict by state security agents as well as their containment of both cannot be considered disruptions of social order. Instead, they can only be conceptualized as forms of governance and policing designed to manage actual or potential rebellious populations.

The Politics of Insecurity

Author : Jef Huysmans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134234465
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Insecurity written by Jef Huysmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. Weapons of mass destruction grabbed public interest and controlling the free movement of people became a national security priority. In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a conceptual framework for studying security. He argues that security policies and responses do not appear out of the blue, but are part of a continuous and gradual process, pre-structured by previous developments. He examines this process of securitization and explores how an issue, on the basis of the distribution and administration of fear, becomes a security policy. Huysmans then applies this theory to provide a detailed analysis of migration, asylum and refuge in the European Union. This theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible volume, makes an important contribution to the study of security, migration and European politics.

Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force

Author : Danny Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1447354664
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force written by Danny Singh and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented empirical research, this book assesses how institutional legacy and external intervention have shaped the structural conditions of corruption in the Afghan police force and state. Filling a major gap in the literature, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature and to anti-corruption policy in developing states.

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing

Author : Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429013361
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing written by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people living in ‘favelas’ in Brazil and critically investigating the discourse of state actors. It combines original ethnographic data with critical analysis to expand understandings of violence and control in urban and postcolonial contexts. This study challenges dominant practices and notions of security and control. Its objective is to decolonise knowledge and shed light on issues relating to policing, coercion, and the great socioeconomic, historical and spatial inequalities that shape the lives of millions of people in the Global South. The findings of this book expose the exacerbation of social problems by the expansion of the penal and crime industry, unsettling the applicability and universalism of mainstream managerial criminology. The evidence reveals that new modes of securitisation have not addressed long-standing issues of sexism, racism, classism and brutalisation in the police. Moreover, through the increasing use of methods of control and incarceration, security programmes have failed to prevent diverse forms of violence and challenge the expansion of organised crime. Instead they have exacerbated the inequalities that affect the most marginalised populations. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the social injustices that exists in the Global South.

Transnational Crime and Policing

Author : James Sheptycki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538578
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Crime and Policing written by James Sheptycki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on transnational crime and policing covers a broad range of themes: the relationship between global policing and the transnational-state-system; the impact of advanced technologies on policing practice; the changing morphology of occupational policing subculture; and the transnational practices of police agencies. The essays include case studies and are based on empirical fieldwork that began in the early 1990s and continued for over a decade well into the post 9-11 period. This collection also provides valuable accounts of the 'secret social world' of transnational police, demonstrates that the developmental trajectory of transnational practices was already established prior to the 'age of Homeland Security' and addresses the controversial issue of how transnational policing in all of its complex manifestations might be made politically accountable in the interests of the general global commonwealth.

Policing Post-Conflict Cities

Author : Alice Hills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848133979
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Policing Post-Conflict Cities written by Alice Hills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century post-colonial city? From Kabul, Kigali and Kinshasa to Baghdad and Basra, people, abandoned by the state, make their own rules.With security increasingly ghettoised, survival becomes a matter of manipulation and hustling. In this book, Alice Hills discusses the interface between order and security. While analysts and donors emphasise security, Hills argues that order is much more meaningful for people's lives. Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its success, the book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than on reconstruction efforts and that tension is inevitable as donors attempt to reform brutal local policing. Policing Post-Conflict Cities provides a powerful critique of the failure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order.

Decolonizing the Criminal Question

Author : Ana Aliverti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192899007
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing the Criminal Question written by Ana Aliverti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, punishment, and imperialism, or the contours and exercise of penal power in the Global South. Decolonizing the Criminal Question is the first work of its kind to comprehensively place colonialism and its legacies at the heart of criminological enquiry. By examining the reverberations of colonial history and logics in the operation of penal power, this volume explores the uneasy relationship between criminal justice and colonialism, bringing relevance of these legacies in criminological enquiries to the forefront of the discussion. It invites and pursues a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonialism on the one hand, and nationalism and globalisation on the other, by exposing the imprints of these links on processes of marginalisation, racialisation, and exclusion that are central to contemporary criminal justice practices. Covering a range of jurisdictions and themes, Decolonizing the Criminal Question details how colonial and imperial domination relied on the internalization of hierarchies and identities -- for example, racial, geographical, and geopolitical -- of both the colonized and the colonizer, and shaped their subjectivity through imageries, discourses, and technologies. Offering innovative, conceptual, and methodological approaches to the study of the criminal question, this work is an essential read for scholars not only focused on criminology and criminal justice, but also for scholars in law, anthropology, sociology, politics, history, and a range of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Decolonizing the Criminal Question is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to download from OUP and selected open access locations.