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Evidence-based policing: translating research into practice: by Cynthia Lum and Christopher S. Koper, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017,336 pp., £44.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780198719946
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 29, Heft 9, S. 1126-1127
ISSN: 1477-2728
The challenges of change: exploring the dynamics of police reform in Scotland
Despite a long tradition of pessimism regarding the scope for meaningful change in police practices, recent structural reforms to police organizations in several European countries suggest that significant change in policing is possible. Drawing on recent research into the establishment and consequences of a national police force in Scotland, this article uses instrumental, cultural and myth perspectives taken from organization theory to examine how change happened and with what effects. It highlights how police reform involves a complex interplay between the strategic aims of government, the cultural norms of police organizations and the importance of alignment with wider views about the nature of the public sector. The article concludes by identifying a set of wider lessons from the experience of organizational change in policing.
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Making Space for “Neo-communitarianism”? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
In: Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism, S. 143-163
Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 177-189
ISSN: 0962-6298
Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain
In: Political geography, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 177-189
ISSN: 0962-6298
Policing the Recession
In: The Political Geography of Contemporary Britain, S. 238-254
Special Issue on Police Reform: Introduction and Overview
In: Policing: a journal of policy and practice, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 234-236
ISSN: 1752-4520
Police reform, research and the uses of 'expert knowledge'
This paper examines the interplay between research and police reform. Focussing on the creation of Scotland's national police force in 2013 it examines the role of research as 'expert knowledge' in the political and policy debate leading up to the reform and the on-going evaluation of the impacts and implications of the new police force. The paper also situates the relationship between research and reform in the context of the role played by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, a strategic collaboration between Scotland's universities, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. The analysis is informed at a conceptual level by the work of Boswell and her consideration of the different ways in which bureaucratic organisations make use of expert knowledge. This focuses attention on both instrumental uses (ensuring decisions are based on sound reasoning and empirical understanding) and symbolic uses where knowledge plays a role in enhancing legitimacy or helping substantiate policy preferences in areas of political contestation. These different uses of expert knowledge have important implications for thinking about the role of police-academic partnerships.
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Plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 1477-2728
Plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems
References to 'plural policing', 'policing beyond the police' and the 'extended policing family' are now commonplace in many discussions of policing in late modern societies. There is a danger that claims about the dynamic and changing nature of plural policing themselves become a new orthodoxy and begin to lose a sense of local nuance and recognition of the importance of place-based specificity and context in understanding the particularities of policing. It is this need to unpack the complex ways in which contemporary plural policing is now configured at a local level within different national political environments that provides the underpinning rationale for this Special Issue. Focussing on aspects of relationships and governance in six jurisdictions across northern and western Europe, it provides important insights into how the policies, practices and narratives around plural policing reflect the influence of particular histories and geographies. The first three articles are focused primarily on the relationships which have emerged in the public sector through its own processes of pluralisation, in particular, through the introduction of policing auxiliaries or municipal policing in Scotland, England and The Netherlands. The fourth article considers both relationships and governance in pluralised policing in Paris, France. A detailed analysis of the governance of safety and security is taken up in the final two articles, examining the cases of Austria and Belgium. These articles clearly demonstrate that experiences of pluralised policing vary widely within Europe and call into question the assumed dominance of neo-liberal forces in this area.
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Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland
In 2013 the governments of the Netherlands and Scotland established national police forces, replacing a tradition of largely autonomous regional police organizations. In both jurisdictions, these radical reforms have raised concerns about the consequences of these national police structures for local policing and for relationships with local communities and local government. Drawing on documentary sources and interview material from each jurisdiction and informed by insights from the policy implementation literature, the key question addressed in this article is how has the legislation that created the new national police forces been put into effect at a local level? Focusing on the impact on the governance, organization and delivery of local policing, the article reveals how the implementation in both jurisdictions involves interpretation and discretion by multiple actors so that gaps are emerging between the national 'policy promises' set out in the legislation and the 'policy products' experienced in local contexts.
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Police protection of intimidated witnesses: A study of the strathclyde police witness protection programme
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 277-299
ISSN: 1477-2728
Police Protection of Intimidated Witnesses: A Study of the Strathclyde Police Witness Protection Programme
In: Policing & society: an international journal of research & policy, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 277-299
ISSN: 1043-9463