Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture

by Ian Loader and Aogan Mulcahy

Citizens, it is said, have 'lost faith' in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high levels achieved during the 'golden age' of the 1950s. Successive decades of rising crime, political violence and urban disorder, miscarriages of justice, and declining effectiveness have left the police in what seems like a permanent crisis of legitimation. A...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198299060
• ISBN13: 9780198299066
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"