Police, Crime & Politics

Police, Crime & Politics
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Publisher : Vanguard Publications
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015041243364
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Police, Crime & Politics by : Hafiz S. D. Jamy

Police, Provocation, Politics

Police, Provocation, Politics
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781501762185
ISBN-13 : 1501762184
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Police, Provocation, Politics by : Deniz Yonucu

In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones. Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and dissident populations live, provocations of counterviolence and conflict by state security agents as well as their containment of both cannot be considered disruptions of social order. Instead, they can only be conceptualized as forms of governance and policing designed to manage actual or potential rebellious populations.

Crime, Class and Corruption

Crime, Class and Corruption
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000020662042
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Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Crime, Class and Corruption by : Audrey Farrell

The Politics of the Police.

Moroccan Noir

Moroccan Noir
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780253010735
ISBN-13 : 025301073X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Moroccan Noir by : Jonathan Smolin

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the Middle East and North Africa.

Power, Politics And Crime

Power, Politics And Crime
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Publisher : Westview Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9780813334875
ISBN-13 : 081333487X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Power, Politics And Crime by : William J Chambliss

How criminal justice policies are creating a nation divided by race, class, and morality.

The Politics of Crime Prevention

The Politics of Crime Prevention
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9780429797354
ISBN-13 : 0429797354
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Crime Prevention by : Brigitte C.M. Koch

This book is a comprehensive account of crime prevention policy in England and Wales. It examines crime prevention policy under the Conservative Government and examines the direction that the newly elected Labour administration is taking. Particular attention is paid to the years 1995 to 1997. The book goes beyond the Home Office and examines the roles of the Police, Probation, Crime Concern, NACRO, the Local Government Association and the role of the national Community Safety Network in national crime prevention policy making. It examines how some agencies influence policy and how others have struggled to have a voice. The methods used to conduct the research include interviewing key persons involved in national crime prevention policy making; distributing questionnaires to police and probation officers of all ranks in Boroughville; and analyzing documents from various organizations such as the Police Probationer Training manual and minutes to the Association of Chief Police Officers sub-committee on crime prevention from their inaugural meeting in September 1986 until May 1995.

We Do This 'Til We Free Us

We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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Publisher : Haymarket Books
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781642595260
ISBN-13 : 1642595268
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis We Do This 'Til We Free Us by : Mariame Kaba

New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”

The Politics of Crime Control

The Politics of Crime Control
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 1446234363
ISBN-13 : 9781446234365
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Crime Control by : Professor Kevin Martin Stenson

What is meant by crime, crime prevention and crime control? Who defines the acts which are deemed as criminal? Who devises the sanctions and who acts as agents of social control? This timely and challenging book brings together a group of leading international criminologists from all sides of the political spectrum. They first examine the formation and implementation of official crime prevention and control policies. In the second part they look at a range of critical perspectives which explore the definition of crime and discuss proposals for its prevention and control.

Conflict, Politics and Crime

Conflict, Politics and Crime
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781000256635
ISBN-13 : 1000256634
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Conflict, Politics and Crime by : Chris Cunneen

Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour of police. Drawing on research from across Australia, Chris Cunneen focuses on how police and Aboriginal people interact in urban and rural environments. He explores police history and police culture, the nature of Aboriginal offending and the prevalence of over-policing, the use of police discretion, the particular circumstances of Aboriginal youth and Aboriginal women, the experience of community policing and the key police responses to Aboriginal issues. He traces the pressures on both sides of the equation brought by new political demands. In exploring these issues, Conflict, Politics and Crime argues that changing the nature of contemporary relations between Aboriginal people and the police is a key to altering Aboriginal over-representation in the criminal justice system, and a step towards the advancement of human rights.

Authoritarian Police in Democracy

Authoritarian Police in Democracy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781108900386
ISBN-13 : 1108900380
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Authoritarian Police in Democracy by : Yanilda María González

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.