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De auteur beschrijt een Canadees programma over de «gemeenschaps- polities» («community policing»). Dit project heeft als doel de politiefunctie onder verantwoordelijkheid van de gemeenschap te stellen, op kosten van de gemeenschap en opererend onafhankelijk van de staatspolitie en het straf- rechtssysteem. In het onderhavige geval wil deze politiedienst de veiligheid ver- zekeren van een groot complex van sociale woningen in Toronto en dit op basis van een huurcontract. De verhuurder heeft de verantwoordelijkheid opgeno- men om in een veilige omgeving te voorzien en moet in zijn organisatie de mid- delen vinden om hieraan te voldoen. Een dergelijke benadering is gebaseerd op het omverwerpen van de normale wijze waarop een organisatie functioneert. De belangrijkste functie is het invoeren en in stand houden van een volledig veilige omgeving.

Cet article souligne tout d'abord q'uen dépit de leurs idéaux égalitaires, lés démocraties libérates mettent à profit leur système juridique pour maintenir les structures d'autorité dans les conflits politiques. L'auteur attire ensuite L'attention sur la théorie requise pour dégager les mécanismes précis servant à perpétuer cette hypocrisie. Dans ce contexte théorique, L'organisation policiére est vue comme une théorie sociale laique qui permet aux policiers dans L'exercise de leur fonction de choisir leur candidat à la criminalisation sous couvert de la loi. L'auteur étudie à la fois les aspects critiques de la culture policiére et les rapports de celle‐ci avec les structures sociales au sein desquelles elle opére.This paper begins with the observation that the legal system in liberal democracies, despite its egalitarian ideals, is used as resource in political conflict to maintain structures of dominance. It then draws attention to the theoretical requirement to identify the specific mechanisms that provide for this persistent and systematic institutional hypocrisy. Within this theoretical context, the police subculture is identified as a lay social theory which serves to direct working policemen in their selection of candidates for criminalization and in their use of the law to initiate this process. Both the critical features of the police subculture and its relationship to the social structures within which police operate are considered.

The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human action, we must reorient our understanding of ourselves, of our environment, and our security.This book considers how decentred and reflexive approaches to security are required to cope with the Anthropocene - the Human Age. Drawing from various disciplines, this bold reinterpretation explores the possibilities for understanding and preparing a future that will look vastly different than the past. The book asks to dig deeper into what it means to be human and secure in an age of ecological exception

The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human action, we must reorient our understanding of ourselves, of our environment, and our security. This book considers how decentred and reflexive approaches to security are required to cope with the Anthropocene - the Human Age. Drawing from various disciplines, this bold reinterpretation explores the possibilities for understanding and preparing a future that will look vastly different than the past. The book asks to dig deeper into what it means to be human and secure in an age of ecological exception. "In a growing field of interdisciplinary work on the Anthropocene, 'Security in the Anthropocene' sets itself apart. It blends ideas from criminology, international security studies and the environmental humanities to provide unique interdisciplinary insight into the challenges of living on an increasingly turbulent earth." - Audra Mitchell, Balsillie School of International Affairs/Wilfrid Laurier University "This essential, groundbreaking book offers a new conceptual framework that recalibrates what security means in the Anthropocene. Not content on simply highlighting the state of crisis fostered by existential risks in this new era, Cameron Harrington and Clifford Shearing invite us to imagine a more positive and caring form of security." - Benoit Dupont, University of Montreal "Harrington and Shearing's fine book explores evocatively how humans might cope with a world that is fundamentally changed through a critical appraisal of how new impacts on the Earth system shift the conditions of security. This is a tour de force of how our concepts of security create the world that afflicts us. The authors argue, convincingly, that there can be no security in the Anthropocene without an expanded vision of care." -John Braithwaite, Australian National University

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 resh

Policing for a New South Africa evaluates the options for change in South African policing. It analyses orthodox policing ideas imported from the West and contrasts them with indigenous models of independent policing in the townships themselves

ABSTRACTThis article examines the decisions to prosecute shoplifters by Canadian retail investigators. A hypothetical case method that permits a statistical simulation of an experimental design is used. The findings support recent research which indicates that both the value of the item and the age of the suspect are the most important predictors of investigators' decisions to prosecute. In addition, our results identify admission of the offense and the suspect's appearance as important predictors of these decisions. In general, characteristics of the offense rather than of the offender are found to be most important factors in the decision‐making process. Further, the results support the argument that investigators' decisions tend to maximize company profit. How‐ever, profit maximization is revealed as an unintended conse‐quence of these decisions.