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