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Conference Announcement: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis Read

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New articles and abstracts

Monday 12. of July 2010

By: Kendra Briken & Volker Eick: Program: Urban Security Work Spaces: Policing the Crisis – Policing in Crisis

Please see the program for the conference in August 2010 (as of early July 2010).


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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Thursday 24. of June 2010

By: Volker Eick: Decommodification by Dispossession? (Non-)Volunteering Long-Term Unemployed on the Security Market

In January 2005, the then Social Democratic-Green Government of Germany introduced the so-called Hartz Laws (Hartz IV). With this legislation, long-term unemployed were to lose their insurance-based entitlements for unemployment...


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Saturday 19. of June 2010

By: Francois Bonnet: Obstacles to Community Policing Implementation: A comparative perspective

Community policing has been designed in the United States after the 1960s riots to address the conflict between police and minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Many countries facing similar challenges have developed...


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Monday 14. of June 2010

By: Kendra Briken & Volker Eick: Urban Security Work Spaces: Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis

The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the »pluralization of policing« (Jones & Newburn, 2006; cf. Eick et al., 2007): Private security companies, at least since the early 1990s, have started to conquer public...


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Monday 14. of June 2010

By: Kendra Briken: The Urban Security Work Space in a Neoliberal Germany: Producing and selling security in times of crisis

Research on neoliberal welfare systems has underlined that work nowadays is framed as a gift and a duty by employers and politicians alike:   While work should by understood as a gift for those in the job market, for those...


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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts