The New PolicingSAGE, 16 лист. 2006 р. - 264 стор. The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including: - the core purpose of contemporary policework; - the reconfiguration of police culture; - organisational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; - the managerial reforms and professional; innovations that have been implemented in recent years; - the future of policing, security and crime control. In offering this discussion of the nature and role of the police, The New Policing illustrates the need to re-examine and re-think the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Examining evidence from the United Kingdom, the United States and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society. This ground-breaking text has been constructed to ensure that it touches on all the key issues that any course on police and policing will cover. It is an essential purchase for all students of policing and criminal justice, and academics and professionals working in this field. |
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... Ealing Studio film The Blue Lamp, ruptured pre-war representations and re-assembled, in the form of PC George Dixon, the iconic depiction of the English 'bobby' on the beat. This film would have an immense impact on popular perceptions ...
... Ealing Studios began work on The Blue Lamp. It is not surprising that the film would relate in complex ways to both the stylistic shifts in the crime film genre and the social turmoil of the immediate post-war era. All those involved in ...
... Ealing Studios' heroic dramatization of the English police constable would shatter the one-dimensional comic ... Studios. Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios picked up the script and to the disappointment of Read and Willis it was ...
... Ealing Studio's version of the community and indeed the nation. The criminal machinations of Riley and Spud and the suggested sexual relationship between Riley and Lewis in their dingy bedsit magnify the permissiveness threat they ...
... Ealing Studios expected the nation's youth to side with the 'drab, bland and neutered' character of PC Andy Mitchell over the 'compelling, thrilling and above all erotic' character of Tom Riley, played by Dirk Bogarde (Medhurst, 1986, p ...
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New Perspectives | 87 |
Chapter 5 Policing Crime and Disorder | 115 |
Chapter 6 Police Culture | 143 |
Chapter 7 Police Governance | 172 |
Chapter 8 Policing the New Terrorism | 197 |
References | 221 |
Index | 241 |