Policing and Social Democracy: Resuscitating a Lost Perspective
author | Robert Reiner |
journal | Cahiers Politiestudies (ISSN: 1784-5300) |
volume | Jaargang 2012 |
issue | 25. Tides and currents in police theories |
section | Artikelen |
publicatie datum | 12 décembre 2012 |
langue | English |
pagina | 91 |
abstract | This paper analyses a sharp transformation in the problematic of police research that has occurred since the 1990s. The change is from a primary focus on sociology of the police to sociology for the police, from critical and theoretical concerns to providing practicable solutions to immediate policing problems. This is related to wider changes in the discipline of criminology, and beyond that to seismic shifts in the political economy and culture. These are the supplanting of an at least implicitly social democratic analysis of the ultimate sources and solutions of social problems including crime and disorder, to a neo-liberal one that highlights |