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Policing in an Age of Austerity - A postcolonial perspective (Hardcover)
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Policing in an Age of Austerity - A postcolonial perspective (Hardcover)
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Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on
one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.
Focusing on the major cut-backs in its resources, both in material
and in labour, it details the extent and effects of that drastic
reduction in provision together with related matters in Scotland
and Northern Ireland. This book also investigates the knock-on
effect on other public agencies of diminished police contribution
to public well-being. The book argues that such a dramatic
reduction in police services has occurred in an almost totally
uncoordinated way, both between provincial police services, and
also with regard to other public agencies. While there may have
been marginal improvements in effectiveness in certain contexts,
the British police have dramatically failed to seize the
opportunity to modernize a police service that has never been
reformed to suit modern exigencies since its date of origin in
1829. British policing remains a relic of the past despite the
mythology by which it increasingly exports its practices and
officers to (especially) transitional societies. Operating at both
historical and contemporary levels, this book furnishes a mine of
current information. Critically, it also emphasizes the extent to
which British policing has traditionally concentrated on the lowest
socio-economic stratum of society, to the neglect of the policing
of the more powerful. Policing in an Age of Austerity will be of
interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of
criminal justice, development studies, and transitional and
conflicted societies, as well as those with an interest in the
social schisms caused by the current financial crisis.
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