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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

Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

: Young Black Men and Urban Policing in the United States

People of colour living in disadvantaged urban communities have been shown to be the disproportionate recipients of both proactive policing strategies and various forms of police misconduct. As a consequence, a growing body of...


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Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

: 'Eye Spy Private High': Re-Conceptualizing High Policing Theory

This paper contests traditional analyses of high policing, suggesting that it needs to be decoupled (in theoretical terms) from its umbilical linkage to public actors and the preservation and augmentation of state authority....


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Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

: The Local Culture of Punishment: An Ethnography of Criminal Justice Worker Discourse

We begin our ethnographic study of a young-offender facility in Canada by analysing a macro-level theoretical debate that began when Pat O’Malley (1999) critiqued David Garland’s (1996) well known British Journal of...


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Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

: Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion: Social Context and Social Theory in British Drugs-Crime Research

The association between drugs and crime is one of the central concerns of contemporary British drugs research and policy. Another major concern in recent years has been the clustering together of the most serious problems of...


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Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

: The Management of Domestic Violence Cases in the Mode of Trial Hearing: Prosecutorial Control and Marginalizing Victims

This paper presents a selection of the findings of a larger empirical research study into the mode of trial decisions in two English magistrates’ courts (Cammiss 2005). While the interests of victims within the criminal...


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