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Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice
brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police
(and policing) across the globe and associated forms of policing
scholarship with inputs from Africa, Australia, South and Central
America, China, Europe, and the USA. Following the introduction the
book begins with a review of the nature of the relationship between
policing research and practice with the Victoria Police in
Australia and moves on to Britain where the focus is on how the
National Improvement Strategy for Policing (NISP) is developing and
how research is being used to design, define, monitor, and develop
its strategic interventions using a series of case studies. In the
United States the complex American terrain of the police is
examined -- in particular this chapter examines how crime
statistics are used to rationalize, justify, and account for their
actions. In Latin America a comprehensive review of research on
police reform in Latin America during the last two decades is
given. Africa provides a complex and diverse social terrain which
needs to be understood in relation to its plural policing
landscape. Police scholarship in China looks at the historical
development and current status of police scholarship in China,
together with the emerging issues arising from it. The overarching
concern of all these reflections is with bridging the deep seated
tensions that exist between scholarship and practice within
policing across the globe and the call for a new relationship of
mutual respect that is committed to exploring better ways of
governing security.This book was published as a special issue of
Police Practice and Research.
Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in the governance of security - mentalities, institutions, technologies and practices used to promote secure environments. This book traces the nature of these governmental changes by looking at security. It examines a variety of related questions, including:
* What significant changes have occurred in the governance of security? * What implications do these changes have for collective life? * What new imaginings may be needed to reshape security? * What ethical factors need to be considered in formulating such new imaginings?
The authors conclude bringing together descriptive, explanatory and normative considerations to access how justice can be conceived within the governance of security.
Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in the governance of security - mentalities, institutions, technologies and practices used to promote secure environments. This book traces the nature of these governmental changes by looking at security. It examines a variety of related questions, including:
* What significant changes have occurred in the governance of security? * What implications do these changes have for collective life? * What new imaginings may be needed to reshape security? * What ethical factors need to be considered in formulating such new imaginings?
The authors conclude bringing together descriptive, explanatory and normative considerations to access how justice can be conceived within the governance of security.
This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to
socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy -
Marxism - to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism
cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or
an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this
criticism is the suggestion that the problem of 'reductionism'
which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism's problem
is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is
not 'deterministic', for there is invariably an indeterminate
relationship between the materialism it invokes and the forms of
politics it adopts. However, materialism is an obstacle to
socialist theory. The contradictions and failures of Marxist class
analysis suggest that the class concept is inadequate to the
demands that socialists continue to place on it. It is not merely
class which is problematic, however, but the conception of
political interests which is associated with it. Even recent
Marxist 'revisionists' who dispense with class primacy are
unwilling to come to terms with the question of how socialist
political interests are constituted. Socialist theory has to
recognise the varied forces and interests on 'the left', and an
effective socialism will have to be a pluralistic one. This means
there can be no general theory of socialism, since a pluralistic
socialism has to be able to adjust to varying social conditions.
Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those
pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There
has been very little discussion of the role of "policing", which is
carried out by a variety of agents, in relation to the role of the
"police", a specific group of people. Les Johnston argues that
policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of this group, is
an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and
quasi-private agents. He provides a new view opposed to models of
police history which see the emergence of the "new police" (since
1829) as signalling a complete break with earlier, private, modes
of provision. In fact, he claims, there is no clean break between
the "old" and the "new" policing. In the first part of the book,
Johnston reviews the history of private policing and examines the
various ideologies of privatization. He goes on to look at current
developments in private policing, including such areas of topical
concern as the activities of the private security sector, and the
increasing effects of privatization on police forces. This book
should be of interest to professionals and students of criminology,
police studies, social po
Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those
pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There
has been very little discussion of the role of "policing", which is
carried out by a variety of agents, in relation to the role of the
"police", a specific group of people. Les Johnston argues that
policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of this group, is
an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and
quasi-private agents. He provides a new view opposed to models of
police history which see the emergence of the "new police" (since
1829) as signalling a complete break with earlier, private, modes
of provision. In fact, he claims, there is no clean break between
the "old" and the "new" policing. In the first part of the book,
Johnston reviews the history of private policing and examines the
various ideologies of privatization. He goes on to look at current
developments in private policing, including such areas of topical
concern as the activities of the private security sector, and the
increasing effects of privatization on police forces. This book
should be of interest to professionals and students of criminology,
police studies, social po
This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to
socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy -
Marxism - to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism
cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or
an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this
criticism is the suggestion that the problem of 'reductionism'
which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism's problem
is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is
not 'deterministic', for there is invariably an indeterminate
relationship between the materialism it invokes and the forms of
politics it adopts. However, materialism is an obstacle to
socialist theory. The contradictions and failures of Marxist class
analysis suggest that the class concept is inadequate to the
demands that socialists continue to place on it. It is not merely
class which is problematic, however, but the conception of
political interests which is associated with it. Even recent
Marxist 'revisionists' who dispense with class primacy are
unwilling to come to terms with the question of how socialist
political interests are constituted. Socialist theory has to
recognise the varied forces and interests on 'the left', and an
effective socialism will have to be a pluralistic one. This means
there can be no general theory of socialism, since a pluralistic
socialism has to be able to adjust to varying social conditions.
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