Black Britons, Race, and Policing

The Long Shadow
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-11661-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

Reihe: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies

This book explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people, elders, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood, it offers a powerful, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens, it examines how race, gender, class, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust, resistance, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust, accountability, and justice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akintoye, Bisi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I.- Chapter 1. Introduction: What’s the Story?.- Chapter 2. Locating the Study: Theory, Methodology, and Site.- Chapter 3. Tracing Shadows: Histories of Racialised Policing.- Part II.- Chapter 4. The State Never Left: Intergenerational Experiences of Racialised Policing.- Chapter 5. At the Margins: Policing Black Women and Girls.- Chapter 6. Policing the Victimised ‘Other’: Experiences of Black Victims of Crime.- Chapter 7. Cultural Toolkits and Lessons in Survival.- Chapter 8. The Long Shadow: Legacy and Intergenerational Cultural Narratives.- Chapter 9. Resisting Surveillance: Everyday and Organised Struggles Against Racialised Policing.- Chapter 10. Empire’s Echo: Race, Identity and the Politics of Belonging.- Chapter 11. Conclusions: What Now?.

Über Autor(innen)

Bisi Akintoye is Lecturer at University of Roehampton, UK, and a solicitor whose research focuses on the intersection between race, drugs, policing, and youth experiences.