Policing and the Condition of England
Memory, Politics and Culture
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 June 2003
- ISBN 9780198299066
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 224x146x24 mm
- Weight 583 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book presents a sociological account of the relationship between policing and cultural change in England since 1945. The book revises the established view that the once revered English police have been 'demystified' in this period. The authors draw on documentary analysis of official 'representations' of policing, and oral historical research with citizens, police officers, former government ministers and civil servants, to provide a re-assessment of the symbolic and political significance of policing within contemporary culture.
MoreLong description:
Citizens, it is said, have 'lost faith' in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high levels achieved during the 'golden age' of the 1950s. Successive decades of rising crime, political violence and urban disorder, miscarriages of justice, and declining effectiveness have left the police in what seems like a permanent crisis of legitimation. A once revered national institution has become thoroughly profane.
In this major new work on the relationship between English policing and culture, Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess and revise this received sociological and popular wisdom on the fate that has befallen the English police. Paying close attention to the symbolic and cultural significance of the police, Loader and Mulcahy document the mix of profane and sacred sensibilities that struggle with one another to determine the contours of what they call English policing culture. They draw on documentary analysis of official 'representations' of policing, and oral historical research with citizens, police officers, former government ministers and civil servants, to show that, far from being 'demystified', policing is a cultural institution that remains deeply entangled with questions of subjectivity, recognition, belonging and collective identity.
This cultural sociology of English policing sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 and offers an important appraisal of what is at stake in the contemporary cultural politics of policing.
... a self-assured, richly textured thesis that is also innovative, engaging and politically committed ... it was a joy to read a book by two authors who reassert why the sociological meaning of policing remains such an important subject for sustained analysis.
Table of Contents:
Settings and Reorientations
Losing Faith?: Policing and Social Change in England since 1945
On Symbolic Power: Towards a Cultural Sociology of Policing
Narratives of Policing and Culture
The Eclipse of the English Bobby
The Fracturing of Police Authority
The Cultural Politics of Police, 'Race', and Nation
The Job and the Force
The Power of the Police Voice
Cultures of Police Governance
Past and Present in Contemporary Policing
English Policing and Contemporary Culture
