Stop and Search (eBook, PDF)

Police Power in Global Context
Redaktion: Weber, Leanne; Bowling, Ben

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines controversial police powers to stop and search people in public places. Case studies from around the globe - including Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, India, Hungary, Holland and the USA - illustrate the use and abuse of these powers and provide a foundation for transnational and comparative research.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Policing and Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317981145
• Artikelnr.: 57081686

Autorenporträt

Leanne Weber is Larkins Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include the detention of asylum seekers in the UK and migration policing networks in Australia. Previous publications include Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control (2006) and Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier (2011). Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Law at King's College London, UK. He has studied policing since the 1980s and is recognised as a leading authority on police stop and search powers. Previous publications include Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice (2010) and Global Policing (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Stop and search in global context Leanne Weber and Ben
Bowling 2. The formation of suspicions: police stop and search practices in
England and Wales Paul Quinton 3. Stop and search in London:
counter-terrorist or counter-productive? Alpa Parmar 4. Ethnic profiling in
ID checks by the Hungarian police Balázs M. Tóth and András Kádár 5. The
usual suspects: police stop and search practices in Canada Scot Wortley and
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah 6. The fantastical world of South Africa's roadblocks:
dilemmas of a ubiquitous police strategy Monique Marks 7. Police stop and
search in India: Mumbai 'nakabandi' Jyoti Belur 8. 'War on Illegal
Immigrants', national narratives, and globalisation: Japanese policy and
practice of police stop and question in global perspective Mitsuru Namba
9. Ethnic profiling in the Netherlands? A reflection on expanding
preventive powers, ethnic profiling and a changing social and political
context Joanne P. van der Leun and Maartje A.H. van der Woude 10. 'It
sounds like they shouldn't be here': immigration checks on the streets of
Sydney Leanne Weber 11. Suspecting immigrants: exploring links between
racialised anxieties and expanded police powers in Arizona Doris Marie
Provine and Gabriella Sanchez 12. Stop and search in global context: an
overview Ben Bowling and Leanne Weber