Policing beyond Macpherson : issues in policing, race and society

221 Pages·2007·4.675 MB·English

by  Lawrence, Stephen, Lawrence, Stephen, Rowe, Michael

Policing
beyond
Macpherson
Issues in policing,
race and society
Edited by
WILLAN
Michael Rowe
PUBLISHING
Policing beyond Macpherson

Policing beyond
Macpherson
Issues in policing, race and society
Edited by
Michael Rowe
WILLAN
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Contents
Notes on contributors vii
Introduction: policing and racism in the limelight -
the politics and context of the Lawrence Report xi
Michael Rowe
1 The historical context: policing and black people
in post-war Britain 1
James Whitfield
2 Diversity or anarchy? The post-Macpherson blues 18
Eugene McLaughlin
3 Police diversity training: a silver-bullet tarnished? 43
Michael Rowe and Jon Garland
4 Understanding Institutional Racism: the Stephen
Lawrence inquiry and the police service reaction 66
Anna Souhami
5 Black Police Associations and the Lawrence Report 88
Simon Holdazvay and Megan O'Neill
6 Policing Muslim communities 107
Neil Chakraborti
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7 Macpherson, police stops and institutionalised
racism 128
Kevin Stenson and P.A.J. Waddington
8 Reform by crisis: the murder of Stephen Lawrence 148
and a socio-historical analysis of developments in
the conduct of major crime investigations
Mark Roycroft, Jennifer Brown and Martin Innes
9 View from within: the realities of promoting race
and diversity inside the police service 165
Brian Holland
Index 189
vi
Notes on contributors
Jennifer Brown is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Head of
Department at the University of Surrey. She has a special interest in
police occupational culture and application of psychological theories
and principles to the investigation of rape and murder. She has
written a number of research papers on these topics and is currently
compiling a handbook of forensic psychology with Dr Elizabeth
Campbell to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Neil Chakraborti is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Department
of Criminology, University of Leicester. He has published widely on
issues of rural racism, ethnicity and victimisation, with a particular
interest in racist and religious hate crime, fear of crime among
minority ethnic communities, community safety, and anti-racism. He
is co-editor (with Jon Garland) of Rural Racism (Willan Publishing,
2004).
Jon Garland is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of
Criminology, University of Leicester. He has researched and published
widely on issues of racism, anti-racism, ethnicity and identity,
policing diversity, community safety and football-related disorder.
His books include Racism and Anti-Racism in Football with Michael
Rowe (Palgrave, 2001), The Future of Football, edited with Michael
Rowe and Dominic Malcolm (Frank Cass, 2000) and Rural Racism,
edited with Neil Chakraborti (Willan Publishing, 2004). In the last
three years he has been conducting extensive research into issues of
rural racism with Neil Chakraborti.
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Simon Holdaway is Professor of Criminology and Sociology and
Director of the School of Law at the University of Sheffield. A former
police officer, he has for many years researched and published
about many aspects of policing, particularly aspects of police race
relations. His specialism is race relations within the police and he has
completed research about the recruitment into and the retention of
ethnic minorities within constabularies. His latest project was a two-
year study of Black Police Associations in UK constabularies.
Brian Holland has worked in the 'equalities' field - including the
Commission for Racial Equality - for over 25 years. At the time of
writing this article, Dr Holland was an Assistant Director with Greater
Manchester Police as Head of Policy and Development within the
HQ Diversity Command unit. He has since semi-retired and now
combines work as a freelance equalities consultant, tutor at Stockport
College and is currently researching 'gun crime' in south Manchester
with Manchester Metropolitan University.
Martin Innes is Professor and Director of the Universities Police
Science Institute at Cardiff University. He is the author of the books
Investigating Murder (Clarendon Press, 2003) and Understanding Social
Control (Open University Press, 2003), as well as a number of articles,
reports and book chapters. He is the editor of the journal Policing and
Society published by Routledge. Innes is currently conducting research
on reassurance policing and the manufacture of social order, as well
as continuing his work in the area of major crime investigation.
Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology at City University
London. He has written extensively on policing, race and community
relations and race and the newsmedia. He is currently researching
shifting philosophies of security and safety in multicultural polities
and newsmedia reporting of homicides. His most recent publications
include The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (2nd edn, Sage, 2005)
and The New Policing (Sage, 2007). He is also co-editor of Theoretical
Criminology: an International Journal.
Megan O'Neill is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of
Salford. Her research interests centre on police and policing studies
and include the policing of football, Black Police Associations, and
police occupational culture generally.
Notes on contributors
Michael Rowe is Associate Professor in Criminology at Victoria
University, Wellington. His research interests have focused on policing
and minority ethnic communities, and on the broader implications
of diversity for the police service. Recently he has conducted an
ethnographic study of policing and examined officer narratives about
police work and the implications that these are likely to have for
neighbourhood policing. He has published widely on all of these
topics, most notably Policing, Race and Racism (Willan Publishing,
2004).
Mark Roycroft is a Detective Chief Inspector in the Metropolitan
Police with 24 years' experience who has worked on major enquires
including a period as a senior investigating officer. He received
a Fulbright scholarship to the USA to research major enquiries,
especially low volume homicides such as contract killings. Mark was
a member of the National Crime Faculty and has assisted nationally
w'ith 'hard to solve' murder investigations. His Masters thesis
examined the use of analysis within the UK police force and he is
a trained analyst. Mark has attended courses at Europol and the FBI
academy on analysis and behavioural analysis.
Anna Souhami is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social
Policy, London School of Economics. She has recently completed a
major two-year Home Office study (with Tim Newburn and Janet
Foster at LSE) examining the impact of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
on policing in England and Wales (Home Office 2005). Her current
research explores the governance of youth crime in England and
Wales. She is the author of Transforming Youth justice: Occupational
Identity and Cultural Change (Willan Publishing, 2007) which explores
questions of occupational culture and identity among youth justice
professionals following the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Kevin Stenson is Professor of Criminology and Co-director of the
Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University, London.
His publications include (edited with R.R. Sullivan), Crime Risk and
Justice, 2001, and 'Sovereignty, Biopolitics and the Local Government
of Crime' (Theoretical Criminology, 9 (3), 2005).
P.A.J. Waddington is Professor of Social Policy at the Policy Research
Institute, the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of several
books on policing, including Policing Citizens (UCL Press, 1999) and