The Governance of Policing and Security: Ironies, Myths and Paradoxes (Crime Prevention and Security Management)

Policing today involves many different state and non-state actors. This book traces the process of 'unbounding' policing, exploring the way that boundaries between public policing, regulators, inspectorates, intelligence services and private security are blurring, and the impact this will have on governance. This Book Explores Policing, Regulation, Private Security And Intelligence To Understand Current Transformations In Policing. Policing Today Can No Longer Be Understood Only In Terms Of An Organization (the Police), But More And More In Terms Of Multi-agency Processes. This Could Be Functional For National Security Interests, Safety And Security But Detrimental To Accountability And The Democratic Process. Bob Hoogenboom Discusses Notions Of 'blurring Of Boundaries', 'unbounding' And 'hybridity' And Pays Homage To, And Critiques, Leading Thinkers In The Field. Hoogenboom Argues That Police Studies And Criminology Are Too Fragmented And Focused On The Criminal Justice System And Not Oriented Enough Towards 'undertows' In Policing And Security. Drawing From A Wealth Of Academic Sources But Also Literature And Popular Culture This Book Unpicks What These New Forms Of Security Mean For Governance. Within Public Policing: Gradual Centralization -- Within Public Policing: Fictional And Factual Policing -- Blurring Boundaries And The Unbearable Lightness Of The Criminological Discourse -- On Old Folks And Things That Pass Away: Criminology In 2018 -- The Governance Of Policing And Security -- 'grey Intelligence': The Private And Informal Future -- The Sopranos: Narrative Knowledge To Disrupt Academic Language -- Ironies, Paradoxes And The Seven Plagues Of Policing And Security -- Technopoly -- Blinded By The Light: The Interweaving Of (organized) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime And Terrorism -- Unsafe And Unsound Practices -- Myths In Policing And Security -- Epilogue: Conversations With Clifford Shearing (ii). Bob Hoogenboom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 222-233) And Index. Translated From The Dutch. Contents......Page 8 Series Editor's Introduction......Page 9 Introduction......Page 10 1 Within Public Policing: Gradual Centralisation......Page 20 2 Within Public Policing: Fictional and Factual Policing......Page 26 3 Blurring Boundaries and the Unbearable Lightness of Criminological Discourse......Page 48 4 On Old Folks and Things That Pass Away: Criminology in 2018......Page 66 5 The Governance of Policing and Security......Page 82 6 'Grey Intelligence': The Private and Informal Future......Page 91 7 The Sopranos: Narrative Knowledge to Disrupt Academic Language......Page 103 8 Ironies, Paradoxes and the Seven Plagues of Policing and Security......Page 123 9 Technopoly......Page 139 10 Blinded by the Light: The Interweaving of (Organised) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime and Terrorism......Page 158 11 Unsafe and Unsound Practices......Page 178 12 Myths in Policing and Security......Page 198 Epilogue: Conversations with Clifford Shearing (II)......Page 209 Notes......Page 225 Bibliography......Page 231 R......Page 244 W......Page 245 "This book explores policing, regulation, private security and intelligence to understand current transformations in policing. Policing today can no longer be understood only in terms of an organization (the police), but more and more in terms of multi-agency processes. This could be functional for national security interests, safety and security but detrimental to accountability and the democratic process." "Bob Hoogenboom discusses notions of 'blurring of boundaries', 'unbounding' and 'hybridity' and pays homage to, and critiques, leading thinkers in the field. Hoogenboom argues that police studies and criminology are too fragmented and focused on the criminal justice system and not oriented enough towards 'undertows' in policing and security. Drawing from not only a wealth of academic sources but also literature and popular culture, this book unpicks what these new forms of security mean for governance."--Jacket