Full Description
Are the recent scandals around UK policing the product of a temporary crisis or rather inscribed deep in the police institution? This timely book presents a critical perspective on key areas of current controversy: policing and communities; policing and protest; and policing and gender.
Bringing together researchers and community activists, the book gives voice to the lived experiences of those more likely to be subjected to police misconduct and discrimination. It challenges current thinking on police from both abolitionist and reformist perspectives, offering a fresh take on recent crises and attempts at reform.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Policing and Communities
1. 50 Years of Policing and Community Organising in Brixton, by Amania Scott-Samuels and Matt Clement
2. From 'Police out of School' to Solidarity With Child Q: Local Mobilisations, Wider Challenges, by Federica Rossi
3. Avoiding a Reliance on Enforcement To Tackle Youth Violence, by James Alexander
4. Interrogating 'Innocence': Imperfect Victims of Police Surveillance, by Hope Chilokoa-Mullen
Part 2: Policing and Protest
5. On the Wrong Side of History: The Police Crackdown on Climate Protests in Britain, by Kevin Blowe
6. Policing the Ecological Crisis: Public Order Policing, Human Rights and Environmental Activism, by Angus Nurse
7. 'Get in the Protest Pen': The Limits of the Right To Protest and the Production of the Docile Protester, by Koshka Duff and Matthew Hall
8. Foxhunting, Aggravated Trespass & the Calculated Use of Police Powers, by Tracey Davanna
9. 'To Protest While Black': A Personal Account, by Destiny Boka Batesa
Part 3: Policing and Gender
10. Police Violence at the Clapham Common Vigil: An Interview With Patsy Stevenson, by Tracey Davanna
11. From One Crisis to the Next: Examining the Relationship Between Police Crises and the British Sexual Violence Sector's "Need" To Improve the Police, by Molly R Ackhurst
12. Campaigning for Justice: Interview With Sukhdev Reel, by Shaminder Takhar
13. 'Absence Makes Your Friends Work Harder': Group Loyalty, Machoism and the Crisis of Un-Wellbeing in the UK Police, by Siân Lewis and Jamie Ferrill
