The Case Against Paramilitary Policing

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-244888-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing

In the late 1980s, the conventional wisdom informing the policing of public order events was that of paramilitarism: militarily trained and equipped units with a special responsibility to deal quickly and effectively with outbreaks of disorder. The philosophy behind the paramilitary response suggested that the training, discipline and specialization entailed ensured that the response was maximally effective and most in line with the tradition of ‘impartial policing by consent’. The argument of this book, originally published in 1990, demonstrates the reverse: not only that police impartiality was chimerical and policing by consent was a viewpoint that did not include the consent of the routinely policed: but that paramilitarism, far from being maximally effective, substantially contributed to the very problem it claimed to minimize. The evidence for this argument is drawn from: concrete analyses of a range of public disorder events – political, industrial and social; a comparative look at similar work in USA and Australia; and substantial fieldwork observations and interviews undertaken with a police special patrol group and its supervising officers.

Jefferson argues further that solutions need to be sought for public order policing in making the police politically accountable, ensuring that such accountability is also just (in accordance with the viewpoint of the routinely policed) and in reversing the drift toward paramilitarism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jefferson, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Introduction. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Minimum Force: A ‘Contingent’ Historical ‘View from Below’ 3. Impartiality, Discretion and the Real World of Policing Disorder 4. Policy, Supervision and the Dominance of the Occupational Dimension 5. Effectiveness or Amplification? The Work Structure in Action 6. Inside the Work Structure: Processes of Amplification 7. General Summary and Concluding Remarks. References. Index.