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Title: Police and Policing


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Police and Policing
  • Exam Revision

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Police and Policing Exam
  • 6 questions
  • Specific themes
  • Answer 2 questions only
  • Dont just rely on class notes
  • Do some wider reading

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Question 1
  • You need to have an historical understanding of
    development of policing in this country
  • You need to have a critical understanding of
    Orthodox/revisionist theories re formation of the
    police force in 1829
  • Key theorists such as Reith, Walker,
    Critchley,Storch, Cohen etc
  • Mostly covered in early lectures

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Question 2
  • Authoritarian statism
  • A shift to a more disciplinary society via
    Thatcher (New Right)
  • The politics of otherness
  • The enemy within
  • Moral panics
  • Stuart Hall the police as primary definers
  • Folk devils and deviancy amplification
  • Deviancy as created by agencies of social control

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Question 3
  • Riots
  • Urban unrest/civil unrest
  • Riots in recent decades
  • Where?
  • Policing the role of the police

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Question 4
  • The expansion of private sector policing in all
    its forms as a threat to public policing
  • How did private policing develop?
  • As a response to what
  • The mixed economy of policing
  • Plural policing

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Question 5
  • We live in an age of surveillance
  • State surveillancr via police/special
    Branch/Security services
  • Who is subject to the gaze
  • Who benefits?
  • A safer society?
  • Threat to civil liberties /Human rights
  • Stockwell

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Question 6
  • Assess the increase in paramilitarism
  • What exactly is it?
  • How does it differ from traditional model of
    policing?
  • How valid the view that it is positive
    development
  • Erosion of democracy?
  • See Waddington/Jefferson/Scraton/Hills etc
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