Uniform Behavior: Police Localism and National Politics

by S. McGoldrick (Editor), A. McArdle (Editor)

Overview

This book places in historical context the continuing push-pull dynamics between national politics and the entrenched tradition of local control over law enforcement in the U.S. Drawing on the present sense of urgency around the War on Terror and earlier national political initiatives that have sought to influence law enforcement at the local level, this multidisciplinary collection addresses key questions about how national and geopolitical developments come to shape local policing, and inform who decides how, and to what end, local police forces will maintain public order, interact with local communities, and address issues of accountability, oversight, and reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349533138
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/23/2006
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stacy K. McGoldrick is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal Poly Pomona. Andrea McArdle is Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Stacy K. McGoldrick * The Militarization of American Policing: Enduring Metaphor for a Shifting Context - William T. Allison * “Arriving for immoral purposes”: Women, Immigration, and the Historical Intersection of Federal and Municipal Policing - Val Marie Johnson * “For Speaking Jewish in a Jewish Neighborhood”: Civil Rights and Community Police Relations During the Post-War Red Scare, 1919-1922 - Joseph J. Varga * Challenging Police Repression: Federal Activism and Local Reform in New York City - Marilynn S. Johnson * The Failure of Force: Policing Terrorism in Northern Ireland - Joanne Klein * Democracy, Citizenship, and Police Procedure in New Orleans: The Importance of the Local Context for Defining Rights - Anthony Pereira * Willie Horton to Osama Bin Laden: The New Framing of Police and Crime in the 2004 Presidential Campaign - Stacy K. McGoldrick * Policing after September 11: Federal-Local Collaboration and the Implications for Police Community Relations - Andrea McArdle * Transformation: The Emergent Growth of Cooperation Among Police Agencies - Peter K. Manning * The Scales of Justice: Federal-Local Tensions in the War on Terror - Kris Erickson, John Carr, Steve Herbert

Editorial Reviews

"An exciting collection...of insightful and innovative explorations into the broader history of policing in the U.S." - Petula Iu, Ph.D., Independent Scholar"Time out of mind, one of the hallmarks of American policing has been its localism; there are thousands of police departments, many of them very small. As thisfascinating book shows, after 9/11 police localism is fading. As the rhetoric of the war on crime is being pushed aside by the war on terror, federal policy is constantly intruding at the local level, often in ways that local police did not foresee and do notalways like. These essays also remind us that the intrusion is in fact not so new; it has been going on for decades in myriad ways we have forgotten or never noticed, and similar processes are at work in other countries." - Paul Chevigny, Professor of Law, New York University Law School"This timely collection is united by the theme of the complex interaction between traditionally local police forces and the initiatives, needs and requirements of national authorities. The essays carry us from the 'war on crime' to the 'war on terror.' It is an essential read for scholars interested in a fundamental, sometimes conflicted, evolution of police practices, goals, and responsibilities since the early twentieth century." - Wilbur Miller, Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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