- Hardcover: 398 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (26 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198299060
- ISBN-13: 978-0198299066
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,575,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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... a self-assured, richly textured thesis that is also innovative, engaging and politically committed ... it was a joy to read a book by two authors who reassert why the sociological meaning of policing remains such an important subject for sustained analysis. (Theoretical Criminology )
... quite masterful ... In eight complementary and elegantly interwoven chapters, the authors present an erudite and informative book that quite simply should be required reading for scholars of institutional orders and ordering. (American Journal of Sociology )
I found the book clear, direct, illuminating and fair ... The authors speak with wisdom about a troubling period of change in English life and views of authority, and they argue well the case for a hopeful democratic evolution, avoiding alarm or shortsighted, journalistic-style pedantry. This is an admirable work of sociocultural analysis. (American Journal of Sociology )
... a sophisticated analysis ... superbly written, insightful and provocative. It deserves the widest readership. (British Journal of Criminology )
The authors are to be congratulated for producing such an interesting and provocative analysis of the contemporary history of policing. The adoption of a cultural perspective sheds genuinely new light on such periods as the Thatcherite love-affair-gone-sour with the police ... They are also to be congratulated for telling the story so well: this book is genuinely a 'good read'. (British Journal of Criminology )
This is a powerful, sweeping analysis of what I suspect future generations will see as a crucial period in English policing and society. It is a challenging but ultimately stimulating read. It offers lessons, points to mistakes and charts the fall from the sacred to the profane. (Policing Today )
... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider. (Policing Today )
The imagery of the English bobby is explored, and its powerful underlying meanings are associated with a fond collective memory of the social order of the past as opposed to the threatening disorder of the present. (Times Higher Education Supplement )
... well researched and clearly structured. (Times Higher Education Supplement )
... a major new work ... Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess received sociological and popular wisdom on the declining public confidence in the English police. (Social Sciences Newsletter )
... quite masterful ... In eight complementary and elegantly interwoven chapters, the authors present an erudite and informative book that quite simply should be required reading for scholars of institutional orders and ordering. (American Journal of Sociology )
I found the book clear, direct, illuminating and fair ... The authors speak with wisdom about a troubling period of change in English life and views of authority, and they argue well the case for a hopeful democratic evolution, avoiding alarm or shortsighted, journalistic-style pedantry. This is an admirable work of sociocultural analysis. (American Journal of Sociology )
... a sophisticated analysis ... superbly written, insightful and provocative. It deserves the widest readership. (British Journal of Criminology )
The authors are to be congratulated for producing such an interesting and provocative analysis of the contemporary history of policing. The adoption of a cultural perspective sheds genuinely new light on such periods as the Thatcherite love-affair-gone-sour with the police ... They are also to be congratulated for telling the story so well: this book is genuinely a 'good read'. (British Journal of Criminology )
This is a powerful, sweeping analysis of what I suspect future generations will see as a crucial period in English policing and society. It is a challenging but ultimately stimulating read. It offers lessons, points to mistakes and charts the fall from the sacred to the profane. (Policing Today )
... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider. (Policing Today )
The imagery of the English bobby is explored, and its powerful underlying meanings are associated with a fond collective memory of the social order of the past as opposed to the threatening disorder of the present. (Times Higher Education Supplement )
... well researched and clearly structured. (Times Higher Education Supplement )
... a major new work ... Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy reassess received sociological and popular wisdom on the declining public confidence in the English police. (Social Sciences Newsletter )
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"... a powerful academic study ... It has important observations and lessons which any student and practitioner should seriously consider."
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