Policing & Firearms
New Perspectives and Insights
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Introduction
Genuinely international in its scope, this book features contributors from Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, and examines is...
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‘Facing Death Gave Him New Life’: On-Screen Police Gun Violence and Weapon Product Placement
This chapter examines Weapon Product Placement (WPP), the sponsored use of recognisable branded firearms in screen dramas, with a particular focus on depictions of police gun violence in mainstream police tele...
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Introduction
In the modern State, police are the sole agents of authorised violence. Many other agencies and services are vital to a society’s well-being, but underpinning all of them is the police, who have both the right...
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‘Only the Minimum Degree’: The Minimum Force Tradition
The doctrine of minimum force is deeply engrained across policing scholarship and practice. To understand its origin, writers typically look to the 1829 creation of the New Police in London, and “Peel’s Princi...
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The Edge of the Knife: The Paradox of Police Power
As is true of power more generally, the power of police is an under-researched and under-theorised aspect of society. Most policing textbooks evade the question of what constitutes police power, instead creati...
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‘As Well Armed as the Criminal’: The Armed Tradition
Contrasting with the doctrine of minimum force policing is the armed tradition of policing, which is explored in this chapter. In the Anglophone world, the armed tradition has two major streams. One derives fr...
