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While there may have been marginal improvements in effectiveness in certain contexts, the British police have dramatically failed to seize the opportunity to modernize a police service that has never been reformed to suit modern exigencies since its date of origin in 1829. British policing remains a relic of the past despite the mythology by which it increasingly exports its practices and officers to (especially) transitional societies.  Operating at both historical and contemporary levels, this book furnishes a mine of current information. Critically, it also emphasizes the extent to which British policing has traditionally concentrated on the lowest socio-economic stratum of society, to the neglect of the policing of the more powerful. Policing in an Age of Austerity will be of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of criminal justice, development studies, and transitional and conflicted societies, as well as those with an interest in the social schisms caused by the current financial crisis.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50415809265937,"sku":"GOR010650598","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51589895061777,"sku":"GOR009464895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52342190637329,"sku":"NLS9780415691925","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0415691923.jpg?v=1752317578"},{"product_id":"crowned-harp-book-graham-ellison-9780745313931","title":"The Crowned Harp","description":"This book is a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history from 1922, Ellison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force.     They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of  the legitimacy of Northern Ireland, arguing that decisions made on the organisation, composition and ideology of policing in the early  years of the state had consequences which went beyond  the everyday practice of policing.     Examining the reorganisations of the RUC in the 1970s and 1980s, Ellison and Smyth focus on the various structural, legal and ideological components, the professionalisation of the force and the development of a coherent, if contradictory, ideology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50498418639121,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50498418835729,"sku":"GOR004890093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53336410259729,"sku":"CIN0745313930VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745313930.jpg?v=1751438950"},{"product_id":"police-and-policing-in-the-uk-book-graham-ellison-9780415858748","title":"Police and Policing in the UK","description":"Policing in the UK is currently experiencing the most seismic shift in its nature, organization and purpose in recent history. Whilst cost and efficiency saving in the wake of the financial crisis will impact the size of the police, plans for increased privatisation, outsourcing and downsizing of core police functions will present further challenges ahead. Analysis of the problems at hand is further complicated by the variations and discrepancies between different local police forces around the UK: a factor that makes it impossible to generalize.            This book examines the fractured terrain of UK policing and considers the way in which state policing in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is diverging on many issues, but converging on others. Issues covered include:                        the effects of the devolution of criminal justice and policing powers to Scotland and Northern Ireland,                the impact of the fiscal crisis and coalition austerity measures,                debates about the likely impact of Scottish independence,                the threat of organised crime and international terrorism,                the peace process in Northern Ireland and on-going concerns about the dissident republican threat.            This is the first book to consider the myriad of issues and problems in policing across the UK and is essential reading for students, academics and researchers engaged with the criminal justice system, public policy and state policing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51201312030993,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201315733777,"sku":"NGR9780415858748","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0415858747.jpg?v=1750974785"},{"product_id":"police-and-policing-in-the-uk-book-graham-ellison-9780415858731","title":"Police and Policing in the UK","description":"Policing in the UK is currently experiencing the most seismic shift in its nature, organization and purpose in recent history. 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