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Youth, Policing and Democracy

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  • © 1996

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  1. Ian Loader

    1. Department of Criminology, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 1-5

  3. Policing and the Youth Question: Against Managerialism

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 6-29

  4. Communicative Action, Democracy and Social Research

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 30-49

  5. The Uses and Meanings of Public Space: Belonging, Identity and Safety

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 50-75

  6. Policing Public Space: The Over-Control and Under-Protection of Youth

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 76-101

  7. Transitions in Trouble: Fragmentation, Inclusion and Marginalisation

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 102-129

  8. Talking Blues: Youth, the Police and Prospects for Communication

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 130-157

  9. Towards Discursive Policing

    • Ian Loader
    Pages 158-176

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-198
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This book is concerned with the place of communication in the troubled relations between the police and young people. Ian Loader presents a forceful critique of managerialism and, from the perspective of critical theory, outlines an alternative way of thinking about policing. This is then employed to make sense of recent research with young people and police officers. Loader concludes by suggesting how a principle of 'discursive policing' can improve police-youth relations and make the police more democratically accountable.

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'In engaging both with young people's experiences of policing, and with the practical issues of how to make their voices heard and of influence, Loader provides a provocative prescription for future arrangements for police governance. This is a valuable book which ought to lead to much more work in this area. Through its example it ought to prompt criminologists working in this field to endeavour to think both theoretically and pragmatically about democratic control of policing.' - Tim Newburn, British Journal of Criminology

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  • Department of Criminology, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Ian Loader

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