Reflections on the Nature of Policing and Its Development

Police Practice and Research (2015)

22 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2015

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Clifford Shearing

University of Cape Town; University of Montreal, School of Criminology; University of New South Wales; University of Toronto

Date Written: 2015

Abstract

What I have been asked to do today is to reflect, with you, upon the nature of policing and its development.

I will do so by relating two stories. The first is a story about the processes by and through which safety is actually produced.

The second is an aspirational story about how safety should be produced. As with many aspirational stories, this second story has captured imaginations, and, in doing so, has shaped the way policing has been understood.

Keywords: policing; governance

JEL Classification: H50

Suggested Citation

Shearing, Clifford D, Reflections on the Nature of Policing and Its Development (2015). Police Practice and Research (2015), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2699109

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