The New Policing

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

′A lucid, comprehensive and stimulating state-of-the-art analysis of the bewilderingly complex contemporary changes in policing. This will be a standard resource for students and scholars of policing for a long time to come.′ - Robert Reiner, Professor of CriminologyLondon School of Economics and Political Science ′Highly original, The New Policing is a significant contribution whose implications extend well beyond the British context and reflect on contemporary policing across the English-speaking world.′ - Pat O’MalleyCanada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University, Canada ′Deeply informed, penetrating, challenging and readable. Eugene McLaughlin analyses ′the state we′re in′ with respect to policing′ - P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Political SociologyUniversity of Reading, UK ′The landscape of police and policing is rapidly changing. McLaughlin locates this change in the media imagery of policing and in the very real fragmented, global context of contemporary policing. When I got to the end, I wanted the debate to continue. This book is valuable in taking our discussions about policing and policing from a clear documentation of how much has changed in policing England and Wales in the last 20 years.′ - Elizabeth Stanko

• PART ONE: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICECultural construction of the English PoliceThe iconic PC: George DixonThe Blue LampThe Murder of PC George DixonPART TWO: THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICEMichael Banton and The Policeman in the CommunityPolicing British Pre-ModernityPolicing American ModernityPolicing British ModernityPART THREE: POLICE STUDIES Traditional PerspectivesEthnographic PerspectivesMarxist PerspectivesAdministrative PerspectivesLeft realist PerspectivesPART FOUR:POLICE STUDIESNew PerspectivesSecurity GovernanceThe future configuration of PolicingNodalizationResidualizationManagerializationRe-sovereignizationGlobal SecuritzationPART FIVE: POLICING CRIME AND DISORDERInsecurities of the MetropolisThe Bright Blue LampThe Dimming Blue LampRelighting the Blue Lamp?Cultural Disintegration: the broken ′spectacle′ of policingPART SIX:POLICE CULTURE Policing the multi-cultural societyBeyond ScarmanMacpherson and ′Institutional Racism′Beyond MacphersonThe Secret PolicemanExplaining Racist CultureDe-contaminating Racist CulturePART SEVEN: POLICE GOVERNANCEOfficer Level AccountabilityForce Level AccountabilityDemocratic Accountability′New Localism′PART EIGHT: POLICING NEW TERRORISMThe darkening skies over the metropolisThe rules have changedPolicing the post 7/7 Terrorist ThreatShoot-to-Kill-to-ProtectWhat kind of police force do we want? 2012 Vision