{"title":"From sacred to profane: The thirty years’ war of the british police","authors":"R. Reiner","doi":"10.1080/10439463.1995.9964717","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how the experience of British policing in the last thirty years bears out the predictions in Professor Michael Banton's pioneering study The Policeman in the Community. They have changed from being sacred symbols of national pride to a much attacked, profane and politically controversial organisation.","PeriodicalId":47763,"journal":{"name":"Policing & Society","volume":"73 1","pages":"121-128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Policing & Society","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.1995.9964717","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper examines how the experience of British policing in the last thirty years bears out the predictions in Professor Michael Banton's pioneering study The Policeman in the Community. They have changed from being sacred symbols of national pride to a much attacked, profane and politically controversial organisation.
期刊介绍:
Policing & Society is widely acknowledged as the leading international academic journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located. This includes: • Social scientific investigations of police policy and activity • Legal and political analyses of police powers and governance • Management oriented research on aspects of police organisation Space is also devoted to the relationship between what the police do and the policing decisions and functions of communities, private sector organisations and other state agencies.