Download or read book Self Policing in Politics written by Glenn R. Parker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to investigations. Is this because of the elaborate system of rules Congress has constructed to regulate the conduct of its members as well as the fear of electoral reprisal? Drawing on economic literature on the behavior of firms, Glenn Parker answers no. He argues that members of Congress behave ethnically not because of the fear of punishment but because of their concern for their reputations. He draws parallels between politicians and businesses, since both stand to suffer significantly when accused of wrongdoing. Just as business' poor behavior can cause brand names to be tarnished, prices to plummet, and future business to disappear, dishonest politicians stand to sacrifice the human capital invested in their careers, and premiums for honesty, such as electoral security and prestigious post-elective employment. Parker explores public attitudes toward the behavior of members of Congress and shows how those attitudes shape the way members conduct their professional lives. Written from the perspective of public choice, this book offers a novel approach to the question of how to keep politicians honest.

Download or read book The Politics of Policing written by Mathieu Deflem and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments and problems associated with police power are at the very front of current public debate. This volume addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing written by Michael D. Reisig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government. They are charged with what has been characterized as an "impossible" mandate -- control and prevent crime, keep the peace, provide public services -- and do so within the constraints of democratic principles. The police are trusted to use deadly force when it is called for and are allowed access to our homes in cases of emergency. In fact, police departments are one of the few government agencies that can be mobilized by a simple phone call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are ubiquitous within our society, but their actions are often not well understood. The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing brings together research on the development and operation of policing in the United States and elsewhere. Accomplished policing researchers Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane have assembled a cast of renowned scholars to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the institution of policing. The different sections of the Handbook explore policing contexts, strategies, authority, and issues relating to race and ethnicity. The Handbook also includes reviews of the research methodologies used by policing scholars and considerations of the factors that will ultimately shape the future of policing, thus providing persuasive insights into why and how policing has developed, what it is today, and what to expect in the future. Aimed at a wide audience of scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as police professionals, the Handbook serves as the definitive resource for information on this important institution.

Download or read book A World Without Police written by Geo Maher and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World without Police transcribes these new ideas-written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades-into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition. Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services. A World without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.

Download or read book Police Patrol Vs Self policing written by John Brehm and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Immunity written by Mark Neocleous and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunity Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The obsession intensifies with every new crisis and the mobilization of yet more powers of war and police, from quarantine to border closures and from vaccination certificates to immunological surveillance. Engaging four key concepts with enormous cultural weight – Cell, Self, System and Sovereignty – Politics of Immunity moves from philosophical biology to intellectual history and from critical theory to psychoanalysis to expose the politics underpinning the way immunity is imagined. At the heart of this imagination is the way security has come to dominate the whole realm of human experience. From biological cell to political subject, and from physiological system to the social body, immunity folds into security, just as security folds into immunity. The book thus opens into a critique of the violence of security and spells out immunity’s tendency towards self-destruction and death: immunity, like security, can turn its aggression inwards, into the autoimmune disorder. Wide-ranging and polemical, Politics of Immunity lays down a major challenge to the ways in which the immunity of the self and the social are imagined.

Download or read book The Rebirth of Private Policing written by Les Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, private police work has been ignored by criminologists primarily concerned with the activity of the public police force. Johnston provides an original view of police history focusing on the emergence of the private police sector as the embodiment of the growing privatization of authority in society. The book's analysis of current developments in private policing compel the reader to re-assess the conventional distinction between "public" and "private" authority so often taken for granted in social and political theory. TheRebirth of Private Policingintroduces a provocative analysis of the role of policing of interest to anyone concerned with the question of social control and the state.

Download or read book Authoritarian Police in Democracy written by Yanilda María González and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.

Download or read book Coerced Confessions written by Jodi L. Short and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive data set for the ldquo;Audit Policy,rdquo; a United States Environmental Protection Agency program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several different enforcement measures and if they were provided with immunity from prosecution for self-disclosed violations.

Download or read book The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self policing written by Jodi L. Short and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the "winwin" rhetoric surrounding these government voluntary programs, it is not clear why companies would participate and whether the programs themselves do anything to enhance regulatory effectiveness. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would a firm that identifies violations turn itself in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem? And why would regulators entrust regulated entities to monitor their own compliance and enforce the law against themselves? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the factors that lead organizations to self-disclose violations, the effects of selfpolicing on regulatory compliance, and the effects of self-disclosing on the relationship between regulators and regulated firms. We investigate these research questions in the context of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy.

Download or read book Policing the Second Amendment written by Jennifer Carlson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race The United States is steeped in guns, gun violence—and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. Yet who do the police believe should get gun access? When do they pursue aggressive enforcement of gun laws? And what part does race play in all of this? Policing the Second Amendment unravels the complex relationship between the police, gun violence, and race. Rethinking the terms of the gun debate, Jennifer Carlson shows how the politics of guns cannot be understood—or changed—without considering how the racial politics of crime affect police attitudes about guns. Drawing on local and national newspapers, interviews with close to eighty police chiefs, and a rare look at gun licensing processes, Carlson explores the ways police talk about guns, and how firearms are regulated in different parts of the country. Examining how organizations such as the National Rifle Association have influenced police perspectives, she describes a troubling paradox of guns today—while color-blind laws grant civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people of color face an all-too-visible system of gun criminalization. This racialized framework—undergirding who is “a good guy with a gun” versus “a bad guy with a gun”—informs and justifies how police understand and pursue public safety. Policing the Second Amendment demonstrates that the terrain of gun politics must be reevaluated if there is to be any hope of mitigating further tragedies.

Download or read book Policing China written by Suzanne E. Scoggins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Policing China, Suzanne E. Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's self-projection of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy. Assessing the problems of resources, enforcement, and oversight that beset the police, outside of cracking down on political protests, Scoggins finds that the central government and the Ministry of Public Security have prioritized "stability maintenance" (weiwen) to the detriment of nearly every aspect of policing. The result, she argues, is a hollowed out and ineffective police force that struggles to deal with everyday crime. Using interviews with police officers up and down the hierarchy, as well as station data, news reports, and social media postings, Scoggins probes the challenges faced by ground-level officers and their superiors at the Ministry of Public Security as they attempt to do their jobs in the face of funding limitations, reform challenges, and structural issues. Policing China concludes that despite the social control exerted by China's powerful bureaucracies, security failures at the street level have undermined Chinese citizens' trust in the legitimacy of the police and the capabilities of the state.

Download or read book Multi choice Policing in Africa written by Bruce Baker and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing is crucial to how Africans experience the freedoms of democracy and determines to a large degree the levels of economic investment they will enjoy. Yet it is a neglected area of study. Based on field research, this book reveals the surprising variety of people involved in policing besides the state police. Indeed many Africans are faced with a wide choice of public and private, legal and illegal, effective and ineffective policing. Policing in Africa is very much more than what the police do. It concerns the activities of business interests, residential communities, cultural groups, criminal organizations, local political figures and governments. How people negotiate this Smulti-choice of policing options, and the implications of this for government and donor security policy, is the subject of this book. It covers policing in all its forms in Sub-Saharan Africa, including two case studies of Uganda and Sierra Leone.

Download or read book Policing the Police written by James Vadackumchery and published by Kaveri Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing The Police May Be A Strange Concept For The Police - But Is Necessary To Police The Society In Indian Democracy Today. Policing The Police With People S Participation Is A New Concept Of Recent Origin And The Book Deals With The Lack Of Policing In Police Down The Centuries. The British Created An Oppressive And Repressive Police To Retain Their Imperialism. The Police Committed Crimes With Abandon And The British Legacy Continued Even After India Became Independent. The Politicians Exploited The Police And Abused Police Muscles To Achieve Political Advantages For Them. The Police Misused Their Power And Authority To Serve Their Self Interests. Owing To The Lack Of Policing With The Police, People Developed A Negative, Avoiding And Hostile Attitude To Police Service. The Antiquated Police Act-1861 Did Not Envisage Any Healthy Human Contact Between The Police And The Citizenry. The Same Situation Continues Even After 50 Long Years To Policing The Democracy. The Book Treats Extensively All These Aspects And Many More For Policing The Police For The Third Millennium. Lawless Law Enforcement Is Condemned And The Book Will Interest Police Officials, Policy-Makers, Administrators, Academicians, Jurists, Lawyers, Politicians, Students Of Criminology, Administration Of Justice, Political Science, Sociology And Public Administration. Contents Chapter 1: Policing A Society; Why To Police The Society And Police?, Retribution: Policing Society And Police, Physician: Cure Thyself First: Justifications For Lack Of Policing In Police, Scales To Decide The Lack Of Policing In Police, Disparity Intreatment And Policing The Police, Social Justice And Policing The Police, Police Is What The Police De Here And Now; Chapter 2: Politicization Of Police And Authority; Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?, Police And Political Interference, Police Approach And Susceptibility To Political Interference, Political Surveillance And Lack Of Policing, Police Association, Politicization And Policing, Political Patronage And Policing; Chapter 3: Political Powers And Police Expowerment; Attact On Politicized Police Force, Individual Policeman, Individual Politician And Police-Politician Nexus, Policing The Politicians And Politicizing The Police, Politicization In Police, A Study, Police-Politician Relations, Political Powers And Police Empowerment; Chapter 4: Susceptibility And Policing The Police; Susceptibility To Torture, Inhuman And Degrading Treatment, Susceptibility To Aggression And Cruelty, Susceptibility To Corruption And Corrupt Practices, Susceptibility To Women And Liquor, Susceptibility To Political Whims, Susceptibility To Human Rights Unfriendly Approaches, Susceptibility To Miscarriage Of Justice, Susceptibility To Public Demands, Susceptibility To Animal Instincts In Man, Susceptibility To British-Indian Police Values, A Criminologist S Reflections On Indian Police; Chapter 5: Police Discipline And Policing; Adverse Effect Of Disciplinary Penalties On Lower Level Functionaries, Total Person And Policing The Police, Discipline And Policing, Misconceived Ideas Of Civil Police Discipline, Soldier Discipline And Civil Police Discipline, Hierarchy Control Of Police Discipline, Discipline, Police Discipline, People S Discipline And Politicians Discipline, Correct Policing The Police, Policing And Deterrent Approaches; Chapter 6: Police Functions And Policing The Police; Functions Of Police Today And Policing, Police Functions, Policing And Justice System, Police Functions, Democracy And Policing, Police Functions, Social Legislation And Policing; Chapter 7: Police Praxis And Policing The Police; Madras Police Act- 1859 And Police Praxes, Law In Principle And Law In Practice, Human Rights And Policing The Police, Police Praxis And Political Influence, Police Praxis After Independence, Petty Ego, Ego Projections, Power, Pseudo-Authority And Policing, Policing Praxes During The Third Millennium. Chapter 8: Police Power, Philosophy And Policing The Police; Police Power, Authority And Policing, British Regime And Police Atrocities, Laws, Power And Policing, Demands Of The Immediate Situation During Law And Order Management, Use Of Violence To Coerce Respect, Sanctions Against Non-Police Strategies, Non-Police Ways: The Best Way To Solve Issues And Problems, Police Methods And Non-Police Methods, Police Powers And Limitations, Police Power And Money Power, Police And Prevention Of Crimes, Police Work: A Dirty Work? Chapter 9: Leadership And Policing The Police; Formative Periods And Shaping Of Police Personality, The Self And Other In Policing The Police, Group Affiliations, Self Concept And Policing The Police, Status Feelings And Policing, A Kerala Study, Communication, Leadership And Policing, Group Processes And Policing The Police, Policing The Police With People S Participation, Group Cohesiveness And Policing The Police, Group Climate And Policing The Police, Task Orientation And Policing The Police, Leadership And Policing The Police, Director General Of Police And Policing The Police; Chapter 10: Policing The Police For The Third Millennium; Positive And Negative Attitudes Of People To Police Or Vice Versa, Propinquity Factors In Face-To-Face Relationship Between Police And People, Enforced Propinquity With People, Sum Glasses And Police-Citizen Interaction, Prejudices And Attraction, Desire And Motivation, Police And People Complementary To Each Other, Attitudes And Democratic Values, Passive Contacts With Police And Police-Citizen Relation, A Millennium Countermove, If Behaviour Is O K, Everything In O K.

Download or read book Reporting Crime written by Philip Schlesinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we watch, read, and hear stories about crime and justice. This path-breaking book reveals how policy makers, criminal justice professionals, pressure groups, and the police compete in self-promoting struggles to shape their own images and the policy agenda. In a series of case studies, the authors pose a number of important questions. Does coverage of crime statistics promote fear of crime, or is the debate about the figures really about something else? By focusing on fear of crime have we underplayed public fear of authority? Does the coverage of sexual crime encourage voyeurism? And finally, is television's growing obsession with showing us stories of real crime more about entertaining the audience than about helping the police with their enquiries? The first new study in almost two decades of how specialist crime journalists work, this book brings to a wider public an influential new approach to the sociological study of journalism.

Download or read book The Punitive City written by Markus-Michael Müller and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eyes of the global media, modern Mexico has become synonymous with crime, violence and insecurity. But while media fascination and academic engagement has focussed on the drug war, an equally dangerous phenomenon has taken root. In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Müller argues that what has emerged in Mexico is not just a punitive urban democracy, in which those at the social and political margins face growing violence and exclusion. More alarmingly, it would seem that clientelism in the region is morphing into a private, political protection racket. Vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the implications of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly widespread across Latin America.

Download or read book The Net Is Closing written by Yair Cohen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The net is closing. The e-police are here. Bringing to the fore a powerful debate about the future policing of the internet; a platform from which the crying voices of victims of online crime can be loudly and clearly heard. Telling a painful truth about what really happens online, the net is closing: birth of the e-police calls out internet bullies and online anonymity, and shines a bright light on who (or what) is behind policing our current "virtual" reality. The book is a polemical work about online safety and policing. It argues for a move away from self-policing and towards a more conventional form of state maintained supervision in the still relatively new sphere of human activity of the internet. The inevitable conclusion, that soon, the internet will become neatly policed, is primarily based on the author's extensive experience of working as a lawyer in the field of online defamation, harassment and infringement of privacy. - Have you ever considered what society will look like in 5, 10 or 50 years' time, without online law enforcement? - Have you or someone you know had their lives destroyed by trolls able to hide behind fake profiles, but felt they had no one to turn to for redress? - Can you imagine what it feels like to receive death threats, be sexually abused, be too scared to leave the house or unfairly lose your small family business, only to find that nobody really cares? The author deploys his experience, along with personal observations of the other forces which shape online behaviour, such as the profit motive of large social media businesses, to make a case for an approach to self-expression and anonymity online which is more consistent with the "real-world" already standards applied to offensive conduct by the state. Through powerful real life stories, addressing the conflict between emotion and logic, the author tells the stories of a prominent football coach child abuser who carefully orchestrated sexual assaults on dozens of young victims so that he can freely share the videos of his abuse online, and that of a school teacher whose innocent quest for companionship online turned into a pornographic nightmare involving blackmail and extortion by the Moroccan mafia and many more real life stories. Urging the government, relevant organisations and corporations to work towards providing a better, safer future for us and our children, this book turns up the heat on the privacy vs. safety debate and puts forth some necessary, yet somewhat controversial, recommendations for change. Determined, purposive and armed with real-life cases of online atrocities, author and top UK Internet Lawyer Yair Cohen's fascinating insights into the internet and our society scares, angers, excited and disturbs. Warning: The Net Is Closing: birth of the e-police is not for the faint-hearted. After reading, you will be on one side, or the other.