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Professor Holdaway takes a sociological & theoretical approach to analyse the new phenomenon of Black Police Associations established in the majority of constabularies in England & Wales, describing & analysing how race & ethnicity are constructed & sustained within constabularies & how they have changed during the last two decades.

Cover -- The Racialisation of British Policing -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Chapter One Thinking about 'race' -- Chapter Two Victims of crime in Britain -- Chapter Three Racial attack in Britain -- Chapter Four The cultural mediation of 'race' - occupational cultures, crime and arrests -- Chapter Five British police responses to riots -- Chapter Six An enemy within - racialised relations within the British police -- Chapter Seven Emerging themes -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.

'Race' is a litmus test for understanding relationships within institutions. Conflicts between ethnic majorities and minorities (and other minorities too) have a capacity to not only bring particular features of racialised relations to view but to also lay bare generic, institutional relationships. In this paper, I argue that the Lawrence Inquiry report directs us to mundane features of policing. Crucially we need to understand the complex ways in which the occupational culture of policing constructs and sustains particular forms of racialised relations. There are two key features of this culture. One is a tendency to use stereotypical thinking generally and in relation to ethnic minorities in particular. The other is to neglect the pertinence of race to rouitne police work. The presence and absence of 'race' is woven into the routines of the occupational culture. Police action can, as the Lawrence Inquiry report suggests be 'unwitting'. To argue the existence of 'unwitting' action, however, it is necessary to demonstrate that police officers could have acted differently. The murder of Stephen Lawrence and the police investigation into it have to be placed within this context if an adequate sociological analysis is to be undertaken.