Overview
- Challenges EBP's positioning as a neutral science-based approach to policing policy
- Provides a detailed discussion of EBP's key ideas debates story-lines subject positions and institutional changes
- Draws on the author's subject position a senior police officer and academic
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis and analytical research into the texts produced by EBP. It presents a new history of EBP presented around EBP's story-lines, subject positions and the institutional changes it has created. This history shows EBP shares a genealogical heritage with modern discourses of managerialism and neoliberalism. EBP's roots are traced and it is re-presented as an extension of the problematic relationship in the production of criminological knowledge and the British state. This history fundamentally challenges the notion on which EBP rests: basing policing policy upon independent, robust knowledge. Instead this book argues EBP should be subject to greater illumination and challenge, suggesting EBP is a contestable device that is doing political work. It speaks to those interested in policing, critical criminology and political science.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Paul Betts retired as a police officer in March 2023, completing over 28 years’ service. His final role was a Detective Chief Superintendent seconded to Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters, New Scotland Yard, London, UK, where he served as the National Prevent Coordinator. Paul is now a senior lecturer in Policing at Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, London, UK. He is also Honorary Fellow in Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is Honorary Professor of Criminal Justice at the Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain
Book Subtitle: A Genealogy
Authors: Paul Betts
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59294-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59293-5Published: 04 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59296-6Due: 04 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59294-2Published: 03 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 324
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime Control and Security, Critical Criminology, Crime and the Media, Crime and Society, Political Science, Political Sociology