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Policing and the Condition of England Memory, Politics and Culture

Loader Ian Mulcahy, Aogán
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198299066
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
583 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
398

Forfatter
Loader Ian
Mulcahy, Aogán

Om bidragsyterne

Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002. Aogán Mulcahy graduated from University College Galway in 1987 with a BA in English, Sociology and Politics. He studied at the University of Stirling and at Northern Illinois University, before receiving his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. From 1991-1992 he was a research officer at the University of Leeds, and from 1997-1999 he was a research fellow in criminology at Keele University. He joined the sociology department at University College Dublin in 1999, where he is currently a college lecturer. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship.

Policing and the Condition of England Memory, Politics and Culture

Loader Ian Mulcahy, Aogán
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
Loader Ian Mulcahy, Aogán
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
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... 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.

Theoretical Criminology

... quite masterful ... In eight complementary and elegantly interwoven chapters, the authors present an erudite and informative book that quite simply should be required reading for scholars of institutional orders and ordering.

American Journal of Sociology

I found the book clear, direct, illuminating and fair ... The authors speak with wisdom about a troubling period of change in English life and views of authority, and they argue well the case for a hopeful democratic evolution, avoiding alarm or shortsighted, journalistic-style pedantry. This is an admirable work of sociocultural analysis.

American Journal of Sociology

Se alle

... a sophisticated analysis ... superbly written, insightful and provocative. It deserves the widest readership.

British Journal of Criminology

The authors are to be congratulated for producing such an interesting and provocative analysis of the contemporary history of policing. The adoption of a cultural perspective sheds genuinely new light on such periods as the Thatcherite love-affair-gone-sour with the police ... They are also to be congratulated for telling the story so well: this book is genuinely a 'good read'.

British Journal of Criminology

This is a powerful, sweeping analysis of what I suspect future generations will see as a crucial period in English policing and society. It is a challenging but ultimately stimulating read. It offers lessons, points to mistakes and charts the fall from the sacred to the profane.

Policing Today

... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider.

Policing Today

The imagery of the English bobby is explored, and its powerful underlying meanings are associated with a fond collective memory of the social order of the past as opposed to the threatening disorder of the present.

Times Higher Education Supplement

... well researched and clearly structured.

Times Higher Education Supplement

... a major new work ... Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess received sociological and popular wisdom on the declining public confidence in the English police.

Social Sciences Newsletter

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.
Les mer
This book presents a sociological account of the relationship between policing and cultural change in England since 1945. It revises the established view that the once revered English police have been 'demystified' in this period. The authors provide a re-assessment of the symbolic and political significance of policing within contemporary culture.
Les mer
SETTINGS AND REORIENTATIONS; NARRATIVES OF POLICING AND CULTURE; PAST AND PRESENT IN CONTEMPORARY POLICING
`... an excellent study of many aspects of the law and its enforcement over the second half of the twentieth century. ... a valuable addition to the history of policing' PB, Rob Gerrard book review `To understand the book it would be possible simply to read the preface and total argument would be there. It in effect acts as an executive summary to the work and to the hurried practitioner or the pressurised student needing to get the essay in on time to understand they need go no further. However, that would be to miss the value of the detailed research and the insights offered in the course of the analysis.' Policing Today
Les mer
Offers an important appraisal of the relationship between English policing and contemporary culture Sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 Develops a original theoretical perspective within the sociology of policing Presents unique oral historical research with members of the public, police officers, and retired senior civil servants and government ministers, including 4 former Home Secretaries
Les mer
Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002. Aogán Mulcahy graduated from University College Galway in 1987 with a BA in English, Sociology and Politics. He studied at the University of Stirling and at Northern Illinois University, before receiving his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. From 1991-1992 he was a research officer at the University of Leeds, and from 1997-1999 he was a research fellow in criminology at Keele University. He joined the sociology department at University College Dublin in 1999, where he is currently a college lecturer. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship.
Les mer
Offers an important appraisal of the relationship between English policing and contemporary culture Sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 Develops a original theoretical perspective within the sociology of policing Presents unique oral historical research with members of the public, police officers, and retired senior civil servants and government ministers, including 4 former Home Secretaries
Les mer

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... 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.

Theoretical Criminology

... quite masterful ... In eight complementary and elegantly interwoven chapters, the authors present an erudite and informative book that quite simply should be required reading for scholars of institutional orders and ordering.

American Journal of Sociology

I found the book clear, direct, illuminating and fair ... The authors speak with wisdom about a troubling period of change in English life and views of authority, and they argue well the case for a hopeful democratic evolution, avoiding alarm or shortsighted, journalistic-style pedantry. This is an admirable work of sociocultural analysis.

American Journal of Sociology

Se alle

... a sophisticated analysis ... superbly written, insightful and provocative. It deserves the widest readership.

British Journal of Criminology

The authors are to be congratulated for producing such an interesting and provocative analysis of the contemporary history of policing. The adoption of a cultural perspective sheds genuinely new light on such periods as the Thatcherite love-affair-gone-sour with the police ... They are also to be congratulated for telling the story so well: this book is genuinely a 'good read'.

British Journal of Criminology

This is a powerful, sweeping analysis of what I suspect future generations will see as a crucial period in English policing and society. It is a challenging but ultimately stimulating read. It offers lessons, points to mistakes and charts the fall from the sacred to the profane.

Policing Today

... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider.

Policing Today

The imagery of the English bobby is explored, and its powerful underlying meanings are associated with a fond collective memory of the social order of the past as opposed to the threatening disorder of the present.

Times Higher Education Supplement

... well researched and clearly structured.

Times Higher Education Supplement

... a major new work ... Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess received sociological and popular wisdom on the declining public confidence in the English police.

Social Sciences Newsletter

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.
Les mer
This book presents a sociological account of the relationship between policing and cultural change in England since 1945. It revises the established view that the once revered English police have been 'demystified' in this period. The authors provide a re-assessment of the symbolic and political significance of policing within contemporary culture.
Les mer
SETTINGS AND REORIENTATIONS; NARRATIVES OF POLICING AND CULTURE; PAST AND PRESENT IN CONTEMPORARY POLICING
`... an excellent study of many aspects of the law and its enforcement over the second half of the twentieth century. ... a valuable addition to the history of policing' PB, Rob Gerrard book review `To understand the book it would be possible simply to read the preface and total argument would be there. It in effect acts as an executive summary to the work and to the hurried practitioner or the pressurised student needing to get the essay in on time to understand they need go no further. However, that would be to miss the value of the detailed research and the insights offered in the course of the analysis.' Policing Today
Les mer
Offers an important appraisal of the relationship between English policing and contemporary culture Sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 Develops a original theoretical perspective within the sociology of policing Presents unique oral historical research with members of the public, police officers, and retired senior civil servants and government ministers, including 4 former Home Secretaries
Les mer
Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002. Aogán Mulcahy graduated from University College Galway in 1987 with a BA in English, Sociology and Politics. He studied at the University of Stirling and at Northern Illinois University, before receiving his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. From 1991-1992 he was a research officer at the University of Leeds, and from 1997-1999 he was a research fellow in criminology at Keele University. He joined the sociology department at University College Dublin in 1999, where he is currently a college lecturer. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship.
Les mer
Offers an important appraisal of the relationship between English policing and contemporary culture Sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 Develops a original theoretical perspective within the sociology of policing Presents unique oral historical research with members of the public, police officers, and retired senior civil servants and government ministers, including 4 former Home Secretaries
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198299066
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
583 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
398

Forfatter
Loader Ian
Mulcahy, Aogán

Om bidragsyterne

Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002. Aogán Mulcahy graduated from University College Galway in 1987 with a BA in English, Sociology and Politics. He studied at the University of Stirling and at Northern Illinois University, before receiving his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. From 1991-1992 he was a research officer at the University of Leeds, and from 1997-1999 he was a research fellow in criminology at Keele University. He joined the sociology department at University College Dublin in 1999, where he is currently a college lecturer. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship.

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