Policing and the Condition of England

Memory, Politics and Culture

By: Ian Loader, Aogán Mulcahy

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Hardcover | 1 July 2003

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Citizens, it is said, have 'lost faith' in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high levels achieved during the 'golden age' of the 1950s. Successive decades of rising crime, political violence and urban disorder, miscarriages of justice, and declining effectiveness have left the police in what seems like a permanent crisis of legitimation. A once revered national institution has become thoroughly profane.

In this major new work on the relationship between English policing and culture, Ian Loader and Aog n Mulcahy reassess and revise this received sociological and popular wisdom on the fate that has befallen the English police. Paying close attention to the symbolic and cultural significance of the police, Loader and Mulcahy document the mix of profane and sacred sensibilities that struggle with one another to determine the contours of what they call English policing culture. They draw on documentary analysis of official 'representations' of policing, and oral historical research with citizens, police officers, former government ministers and civil servants, to show that, far from being 'demystified', policing is a cultural institution that remains deeply entangled with questions of subjectivity, recognition, belonging and collective identity.

This cultural sociology of English policing sheds new light on the social changes and conflicts that have called police authority into question in the decades since 1945 and offers an important appraisal of what is at stake in the contemporary cultural politics of policing.

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`... an excellent study of many aspects of the law and its enforcement over the second half of the twentieth century. ... a valuable addition to the history of policing' PB, Rob Gerrard book review `To understand the book it would be possible simply to read the preface and total argument would be there. It in effect acts as an executive summary to the work and to the hurried practitioner or the pressurised student needing to get the essay in on time to understand they need go no further. However, that would be to miss the value of the detailed research and the insights offered in the course of the analysis.' Policing Today

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