Plural Policing, Security and the COVID Crisis

Monica den Boer ​is Professor of Military Policing Operations at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Her primary research focus is on the evolution of military policing, as well as border policing, international policing, urban policing and the policing of organised crime and terrorism. She served as member of the Dutch national parliament from 2017 to 2020. Prior to this she worked in several academic and professional environments, including the Police Academy of the Netherlands and the VU University Amsterdam.Eric Bervoets is a police scientist and criminologist. He has been active as a researcher since 1997. After a master's degree in public administration at Rotterdam Erasmus University, the Netherlands, Bervoets obtained his PhD in 2006 with a dissertation on policing troubled neighbourhoods. In 2020, he was appointed Research Fellow at the Netherlands Defence Academy.Linda Hak obtained her BSc in Criminology at Erasmus University and a master’s degree in Legal Psychology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She served as a research intern at Bureau Bervoets and is employed as a detective assistant for the National Police of the Netherlands.

• 1. Introductory Chapter: Presenting a Conceptual Framework for Critical Analysis and Mutual Comparison.- 2. Looking Back at the Data: Reconstruction Chapter: Ferwerda et al.- 3. Security Governance and Policing of COVID-19: Dutch versus the Obedient Germans and Belgians? Eric Bervoets and Monica Den Boer.- 4. Security Governance and Policing of COVID-19 in the Nordic Countries?.- 5. Security Governance and Policing of COVID-19 in Central and East-Europe? Andrej Sotlar, Branko Lobnikar, Krunoslav Borovic, Irena Cajner Mraović, Gregor Wenda.- 6. Security Governance and Policing of COVID-19 in South Europe: Fines, Street Surveillance, and Police Violence Amidst a Total Lockdown. Prospective author: Anastassia Tsoukala.- 7. Security Governance and Policing of COVID-19 in the Atlantic Archipelago: An Orderly Affair Amidst the Brexit Divorce? Prospective authors: Saskia Hufnagel, Queen Mary University London and Ben Bradford.- 8. Concluding Chapter: Summary of Principal Findings and Lessons to be Learnt, by the Editors, Eric Bervoets and Monica den Boer.