Being a Nodal Police in the Liquid 21st Century

Policing, 5(3), 210-218 (2011)

Posted: 19 Sep 2019

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Clifford Shearing

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

Monique Marks

University of KwaZulu-Natal - Department of Sociology

Date Written: 2011

Abstract

This article explores new ways in which the police are thinking about, or should be thinking about their role in a plural, neo-liberal, and networked society. It draws on the vision developed by the Nexus Policing Project of the Victoria Police, Australia. This article argues that the public police have clung onto the dream that they are able to monopolise policing. We argue that this is but a dream and that the police need to reconfigure their self-identity and their role definition to fit with the contemporary policing landscape. We explore some real practical implications that this might have for police officers who are constantly under pressure to reinvent themselves.

Keywords: nodal governance; police; policing

Suggested Citation

Shearing, Clifford D and Marks, Monique, Being a Nodal Police in the Liquid 21st Century (2011). Policing, 5(3), 210-218 (2011), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2719604

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Monique Marks

University of KwaZulu-Natal - Department of Sociology ( email )

South Africa

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