Reflections on the Nature of Policing and Its Development
Police Practice and Research (2015)
22 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2015
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: 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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