Policing Citizens: Police, Power and the State

This comparative text serves both as an introduction to contemporary police studies and an intervention into current debates concerning police reform and practice.

What is Policing?

1

(31)

Introduction

1

(1)

What Officers Do-An Anecdote

1

(2)

The Same the Whole World Over?

3

(1)

Crime-Fighters?

4

(8)

Peacekeeping and Service?

12

(3)

Monopolists of Force?

15

(5)

Exercising Authority

20

(1)

Policing, Citizens and the State

20

(4)

Policing Non-Citizens: The Colonial Example

24

(2)

Continental and Other Forms of Policing

26

(2)

Contesting Citizenship

28

(2)

Conclusion

30

(1)

Keeping People in Their Place

31

(33)

Introduction

31

(1)

Discretion in Policing

31

(7)

A Flawed Perspective

38

(7)

Policing Subordination and Exclusion

45

(16)

Citizenship and Resistance

61

(1)

Negotiating Respectability

62

(1)

Keeping People in Their Place

63

(1)

Keeping Dissent in Its Place

64

(33)

Introduction

64

(1)

Criminals, Citizens and the State

64

(5)

Creating a Duopoly of Force

69

(1)

Control through Inclusion

70

(3)

``Ordinary Decent Protesters''

73

(1)

A Common Democratic Solution

74

(1)

Civil Rights: Contesting Citizenship

75

(3)

Reversing Inclusion

78

(6)

Policing Divided Societies

84

(3)

The Resurgence of Militarization

87

(8)

Conclusion

95

(2)

Thought, Talk and Action

97

(24)

Introduction

97

(1)

Are Police Officers Born or Made?

97

(5)

Continuities in Explanations of Police Behaviour

102

(7)

Appreciating the ``Oral Tradition'' of Policing

109

(11)

Conclusion

120

(1)

Abusing Authority

121

(38)

Introduction

121

(1)

Bribery and Corruption

121

(4)

The Invitational Edges of Corruption

125

(2)

``Bending'' and ``Breaking the Rules''

127

(22)

Excessive Force

149

(9)

Conclusion

158

(1)

Controlling Police Officers

159

(25)

Introduction

159

(1)

Regulating Police Wrongdoing

159

(24)

Conclusion

183

(1)

Controlling Police Organizations

184

(22)

Introduction

184

(1)

Independence and Control

184

(7)

Impartiality, Discretion and Law

191

(4)

Accommodating Constitutional Tensions

195

(1)

Abuses of Power

196

(1)

A Mechanism for Restraint?

197

(4)

Making a Difference

201

(3)

Constructing Constitutionalism

204

(2)

Reform and Change

206

(45)

Introduction

206

(1)

Community Policing

206

(20)

Police Management

226

(17)

Privatization

243

(6)

Conclusion

249

(2)

Bibliography

251

(45)

Index

296

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