Policing in an Age of Austerity: A Postcolonial Perspective

Policing in an Age of Austerity: A Postcolonial Perspective
ISBN-10
0415691893
ISBN-13
9780415691895
Category
Social Science
Pages
189
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Graham Ellison, Michael Brogden

Description

In the current context of financial retrenchment on public-sector budgets, public policing in England and Wales today faces the prospect of dramatic change. While the question of role and function has been the bedrock of classical sociological theorizing on police, this book grounds such theorising in explicating how British policing has arisen through a schismatic process, why it is in a present mess, and what it should be doing in the future The central themes of this critical text are An analysis of the congeries of roles and functions that our public police in England and Wales currently undertake and how they got there An examination of the effect of arbitrary reduction in police services, including a reading of policing politics in an age of austerity A comparative critique of the British Brand of Policing The development of a normative manifesto for the future of British Policing. This book will be essential for reading for students, researchers and academics alike in criminology, police studies and public and social policy.

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