Policing European Metropolises (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Security in City-Regions
Redaktion: Devroe, Elke; Ponsaers, Paul; Edwards, Adam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on policing in city-regions in Europe bringing together experts from across the continent to develop a sociology of urban policing and a unique methodology for comparing different metropolises in the same country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317360193
• Artikelnr.: 47903962

Autorenporträt

Elke Devroe is Associate Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Adam Edwards is Reader in Politics and Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK Paul Ponsaers is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Penal Law and Criminology, University of Ghent, Belgium

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction
1. Processes of convergence and divergence in the policy formulation of
policing strategies for European metropolises (Elke Devroe, Adam Edwards,
Paul Ponsaers)
2. European National Police Systems and Metropolitan Realities (Elke Devroe
and Paul Ponsaers)
Part II: Convergence: The Dominance of National States in Agenda Setting
3. France
Governing Metropolises: The false pretenses of metropolisation (Jacques de
Maillard and Christian Mouhanna)
4. PortugalUrban Security Governance in Portugal: Key-elements and
challenges (Carla Cardoso and Josefina Castro)
5. Finland
Policing regime in transition in the Nordic countries: Some critical notes
from the Nordic reality (Sirpa Virta and Jari Taponen)
6. Slovenia
Convergence and Diversity of Policing in Post Socialist Countries and its
Reflection to Local Policing: The case of Slovenia (Maja Modic, Branko
Lobnikar, Bernarda Tominc, Andrej Sotlar, and Gorazd Meko)
Part III: Divergence: Active City-Regions pursuing their own policing
agendas
7. Italy
Urban Policing in Italy: Some reflections in a comparative perspective (
Rossella Selmini)
Policing and Urban Control in Rome and Milan: A view from the southern edge
of Europe (Marco Calaresu and Rossella Selmini)
8. United KingdomMetropolitan Policing Agendas in Britain: Divergent
Tendencies in a Fragmenting State? (Adam Edwards, Sophie Chambers, Nick
Fyffe, Alistair Henry)
9. Germany
Policing metropolises in a system of cooperative federalism: Berlin as the
German capital and a City State compared to Cologne as the biggest city in
North Rhine-Westphalia (Hartmut Aden and Berhard Frevel)
10. BelgiumPolicing Antwerp and Brussels: Two of a kind? (Evelien De Pauw
and Marleen Easton)
11. The Netherlands
Local strategies for global challenges: Comparing policing agendas in
Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Ruth Prins and Elke Devroe)
Part IV: Conclusion
12. The European World of Metropolitan Policing: Interpreting patterns of
governance, policy and politics (Adam Edwards, Elke Devroe, Paul Ponsaers)