书目名称 | Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain |
副标题 | A Genealogy |
编辑 | Paul Betts |
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概述 | Challenges EBP‘s positioning as a neutral science-based approach to policing policy.Provides a detailed discussion of EBP‘s key ideas debates story-lines subject positions and institutional changes.Dr |
丛书名称 | Critical Criminological Perspectives |
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描述 | .Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis and analytical research into the texts produced by EBP. It presents a new history of EBP presented around EBP‘s story-lines, subject positions and the institutional changes it has created. This history shows EBP shares a genealogical heritage with modern discourses of managerialism and neoliberalism. EBP‘s roots are traced and it is re-presented as an extension of the problematic relationship in the production of criminological knowledge and the British state. This history fundamentally challenges the notion on which EBP rests: basing policing policy upon independent, robust knowledge. Instead this book argues EBP should be subject to greater illumination and challenge, suggesting EBP is a contestable device that is doing political work. It speaks to those interested in policing, critical |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | Foucault; police reform; neoliberalism; politics and police; political science; political sociology; polit |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59294-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-59296-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-59294-2Series ISSN 2731-0604 Series E-ISSN 2731-0612 |
issn_series | 2731-0604 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |