‘Conservatives and the Constabulary in Britain:
Cross-Dressing Conundums’ in The Politics of Policing: Between Force and
Legitimacy: v.21 (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance) 6 Jun 2016 by
Mathieu Deflem (Editor) Bingley: Emerald Publishing, pp.79-96.
‘Policing; Past, Present and Future’ by Ben Bowling, Shruti
Iyer, Robert Reiner and James Sheptycki, in What is to Be Done About Crime
and Punishment?: Towards a 'Public Criminology' ed. By Roger
Matthews, London: Palgrave (2016)
'Crime: Concepts, Causes, Control' in M.Holborn (ed.)
Contemporary Sociology (Cambridge: Polity, 2015) pp.566-97.
(with Denis O’Connor): 'Politics and Policing: The Terrible
Twins' in J.Fleming (ed.) Police Leadership (Oxford University Press,
2015) pp.42-70.
'Power to the People? A Social Democratic Critique of the
Coalition Government’s Police Reforms' in S.Lister and M.Rowe (eds.)
Accountability of Policing (Routledge: 2015) pp.132-49.
'Reflections on Michael Freeman’s "Law and Order in 1984"' in
A.Diduck, N.Peleg and H.Reece (eds.) Law in Society: Reflections on Children,
Family, Culture and Philosophy (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015) pp.273-292.
'Revisiting the Classics: Three Seminal Founders of the Study
of Policing: Michael Banton, Jerome Skolnick and Egon Bittner' Policy and
Society (2015) 25:3 pp.308-327
As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number
of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is
something to be celebrated. The Revisiting the Classics series aims to bring together
leading commentators to review books that contribute to the core of police studies. There
will always be debate about which books are seminal and which authors have had the
greatest influence on the discipline. We hope this initiative will encourage readers to
rediscover the value of work done by previous generations. In this first essay, Robert
Reiner provides a stimulating start to the series by reviewing the pioneering works of
Michael Banton, Egon Bittner and Jerome Skolnick.
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'Political Economy and Policing: A Tale of Two Freudian Slips'
in V.Mitsilegas, P.Alldridge and Leonidas Cheliotis (eds.) Globalisation,
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and transnational
Perspectives (Oxford: Hart, 2015)
'Who governs? Democracy, plutocracy, science and prophecy in
policing' Criminology and Criminal Justice (2013) 13 pp.161-180
This article critically analyses two key debates about police
and policing: the problematic definition of their role, and how they can be
rendered democratically accountable. Both issues have been radically altered
through the profound transformation of policing produced by the last three
decades of neo-liberal hegemony. The article focuses on how this has developed
in England and Wales, although there are parallels with other jurisdictions. The
complex role of the police has been distilled down to criminal catching.
Accountability has become accountancy, under the auspices of New Public
Management. The current British Coalition government’s tendentious ‘austerity’
measures make these perennial problems especially acute. The Coalition purports
to be democratizing police accountability through elected Police and Crime
Commissioners. These claims are critically analysed in principle, but how they
work out in practice is hard to prophesy. It is suggested they may play out in
ways that frustrate their architects’ hopes, due to the continuing baleful
consequences of neoliberalism.
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'Policing and social democracy: resuscitating a lost
perspective' Journal of Police Studies 2012/4 nr.25 pp.91-114
This paper analyses a sharp transformation in the problematic
of police research that has occurred since the 1990s. The change is from a
primary focus on sociology of the police to sociology for the police, from
critical and theoretical concerns to providing practicable solutions to
immediate policing problems. This is related to wider changes in the discipline
of criminology, and beyond that to seismic shifts in the political economy and
culture. These are the supplanting of an at least implicitly social democratic
analysis of the ultimate sources and solutions of social problems including
crime and disorder, to a neo-liberal one that highlights the politics of law and
order. Whilst in the short run these appear to have worked as reflected in the
fall in crime rates since the mid-1990s, the longer term issue is whether this
has been symptom suppression, as a social democratic perspective suggests,
rather than a stable basis for security which would require wider socio-economic
justice.
'What's Left? The prospects for social democratic criminology'
Crime, Media, Culture (2012) 8 (2) pp.135-150
This paper analyses the fate of social democratic sensibility
in thinking about crime and criminal justice that prevailed for most of the 20th
century, until a profound rupture in culture, political economy, crime and
criminal justice. The paper proposes an ideal-type of social democratic
criminology, and contrasts it with the law-and-order perspective that displaced
it after the 1970s. The sources and consequences of this seismic shift are
analysed and evaluated. Finally, following the fracturing of the last forty
years’ neoliberal hegemony in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, it considers
the prospects of a revival of the social democratic perspective in
criminological thinking.
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'Political Economy and Criminology: The Return of the
Repressed’ in S.Hall and S.Winlow (eds.) New Directions in Criminological
Theory London: Routledge pp. 30-51.
'What Causes Crime?’ in S.Khan (ed.) Punishment and Reform:
How Our Criminal Justice System Can Cut Crime London: Fabian Society, 2011,
pp. 86-94.
R.Reiner: ‘Return of the Nasty Party’ in A.Silvestri (ed.)
Critical Reflections: Social and Criminal Justice in the First Year of Coalition
Government London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 2012, pp. 28-30
(C.Greer and) R.Reiner: ‘Mediated Mayhem: Media, Crime,
Criminal Justice’ in (M.Maguire, R.Morgan and) R.Reiner (eds.): The Oxford
Handbook of Criminology 5th.ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.
245-78.
R.Reiner: ‘Casino Capital’s Crimes: Political Economy, Crime,
and Criminal Justice’ in (M.Maguire, R.Morgan and) R.Reiner (eds.): The
Oxford Handbook of Criminology 5th.ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012, pp. 301-335.
(T.Newburn and) R.Reiner: ‘Policing and the Police’ in
(M.Maguire, R.Morgan and) R.Reiner (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
5th.ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.806-837
In praise of fire brigade policing: Contra common sense
conceptions of the police role London: Howard League 2012, 23 pp.
R.Reiner: ‘British Society of Criminology Outstanding
Achievement Award 2011 Acceptance Speech’ British Society of Criminology
Newsletter 69, London: British Society of Criminology 2011, pp.9-11
R.Reiner: ‘Foreword’ to Emma Bell: Criminal Justice and
Neoliberalism London: Sage 2011 pp.vi-xi.
Review Symposium in Policing (2011) Vol.5 no.2 in
response to The Politics of the Police
4th ed.
‘New Theories of Policing: A Social Democratic Critique’ in
T.Newburn, D.Downes and D.Hobbs (eds.) The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and
Control: Essays for Paul Rock Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
pp.141-82.
'Citizenship, Crime, Criminalization: Marshalling a Social
Democratic Perspective' New Criminal Law Review Apr 2010, Vol. 13, No. 2:
241–261
This paper argues that criminalization, in the double sense of
more perceived (and probably actual) crime and of the tough crime control
policies brought by the politics of law and order, are consequences of the
reversal some thirty years ago of the centuries-long progress toward universal
incorporation into social, political, and civil citizenship. By contrast, the
hundred years before that had witnessed the spread of social rights and greater
inclusiveness, and experienced a benign coupling of lower crime and disorder
with more consensual and welfare-oriented policing and penality. The necessary
condition of restoring that more benign climate of greater security is a
reversal of the neoliberalism that undermined social democracy. Since the 2007
credit crash, neoliberalism has been challenged increasingly, as practice and as
ideology, yet it remains deeply embedded. The ideas and organization to restore
social democracy have not been developed. Nonetheless it remains the
precondition for security and humane criminal justice, as envisaged by T.H.
Marshall's citizenship lectures fifty years ago.
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‘Police Property’ in A.Wakefield and J.Fleming: The Sage
Dictionary of Policing London: Sage, 2009, pp.230-231.
‘Police Property’ in A.Wakefield and J.Fleming: The Sage
Dictionary of Policing London: Sage, 2009, pp.230-231.
‘Consent’ in A.Wakefield and J.Fleming: The Sage Dictionary
of Policing London: Sage, 2009, pp.52-4.
‘Crime and the Media’ in P.Cane and J.Conaghan: The New
Oxford Companion to Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.260-261.
‘Crime Rates’ in P.Cane and J.Conaghan: The New Oxford
Companion to Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.267-8.
‘Dixon of Dock Green’ in T.Newburn and P.Neyroud:
Dictionary of Policing Cullompton: Willan, 2008, p. 85.
‘Media and Policing’ in T.Newburn and P.Neyroud: Dictionary
of Policing Cullompton: Willan, 2008, pp.161-2.
‘The Law and Order Trap’ Soundings: A Journal of Politics
and Culture 40, December 2008, pp.123-134.
‘Success Or Statistics? New Labour and Crime Control’
Criminal Justice Matters 67, Spring 2007, pp.4-5, 37.
‘Political Economy, Crime and Criminal Justice’ in The
Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Edited by M.Maguire, R.Morgan and R.Reiner.
4th Ed. Oxford University Press 2007 pp.341-380.
The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text
on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of
Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive
references to aid further research. In addition to the history of the
discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book
provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice
process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The
fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential
reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable
sourcebook for professionals.
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(With T.Newburn) ‘Policing and the Police’ in The Oxford Handbook of
Criminology Edited by M.Maguire, R.Morgan and R.Reiner, 4th Ed. Oxford
University Press 2007 pp.910-952.
The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text
on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of
Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive
references to aid further research. In addition to the history of the
discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book
provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice
process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The
fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential
reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable
sourcebook for professionals.
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‘Media Made Criminality’ in The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Edited by
M.Maguire, R.Morgan and R.Reiner, 4th Ed. Oxford University Press 2007 pp.
302-337
The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text
on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of
Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive
references to aid further research. In addition to the history of the
discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book
provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice
process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The
fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential
reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable
sourcebook for professionals.
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‘Criminology As A Vocation’ in
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights Ed. By D.Downes, P.Rock,
C.Chinkin and C.Gearty, Cullompton: Willan, 2007 pp.395-409.
The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to
acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human
rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these
fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring.
It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with several
unifying themes, and it has made, and continues to make, a lasting impact
around the world. His work thus has a protean character and scope which
transcend time and place.
This book of essays in Stanley Cohen’s
honour aims to build on and reflect some of his many-sided
contributions. It contains chapters by some of the world’s
leading thinkers as well as the rising generation of
scholars and practitioners whose approach has been shaped in
significant respects by his own
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(With T.Newburn) ‘Police Research’ in
Doing Research on Crime and Justice Edited by R. King and E.
Wincup, 2nd Ed. Oxford University Press 2007
This volume brings together research principles with the
practical issues of carrying out research to provide a clear and fascinating
guide to the reality of contemporary criminological research. The experience
of leading experts is combined with first-hand accounts from new scholars,
to provide a text that students can refer to throughout their criminological
studies.
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(With T.Newburn) ‘Crime and Penal Policy’ in Blair’s Britain, 1997-2007,
Ed. By A. Seldon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008
Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more
than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms
of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the
end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the
achievements and failures of the Blair governments. Bringing together
Britain's most eminent academics and commentators on British politics and
society, it examines the effect of the Prime Minister and his administration
on the machinery of government, economic and social policy and foreign
relations. Combining serious scholarship with clarity and accessibility,
this book represents the authoritative verdict on the impact of the Blair
years on British politics and society.
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‘Media, Crime, Law and Order’
Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies 12: July 2006 pp.
5-21.
‘Neo-liberalism, Crime and Criminal Justice’ Renewal 14/3 2006. Pp.
10-22.
‘Neo-philia or Back to Basics? Policing Research and the Seductions
of Crime Control’ Policing and Society 17:1 2007 pp.89-101.
‘Law and Order: A 20:20 Vision’
Current Legal Problems 2006 Oxford University Press 2007
pp.129-60.
‘Success Or Statistics? New Labour and Crime Control’
Criminal Justice Matters 67, Spring 2007, pp.4-5, 37.
‘Beyond Risk: A Lament for Social Democratic Criminology’
in The Politics of Crime Control, Edited by T.Newburn and P.Rock.
Oxford University Press 2006 pp. 7-49.
This book brings together ten leading British
criminologists to explore the contemporary politics of crime and its
control. The volume is produced in honour of Britain's most important
criminological scholar - David Downes of the London School of Economics. The
essays are grouped around the three major themes that run through David
Downes' work - sociological theory, crime and deviance; comparative penal
policy; and, the politics of crime. The third theme also provides the
overarching unifying thread for the volume.
The contributions are broad ranging and
cover such subjects as criminological theory and the new
East End of London, the practice of comparative
criminology including an analysis of variations in penal
cultures within the United States, restorative justice
in Colombia, New Labour's politics and policy in
relation to dangerous personality-disordered offenders,
the legal construction of torture, and the future for a
social democratic criminology.
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'From PC Dixon to Dixon PLC: Policing and Police Powers Since 1954’ (With T.
Newburn) Criminal Law Review August 2004 pp. 601-18.
Examines the transformation in policing
over the past 50 years, focusing on the pluralisation of
policing in respect of the more complex relationship
between the police and other policing mechanisms, and
secondly shifts in the mandate and legitimacy of the
police themselves. Explores: (1) the dialectics of
policing history since 1954; (2) the changes in police
powers since 1954, tracing the statutory extensions and
in particular the significance and effects of the
landmark Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the
accretion of powers through legislation at least
ostensibly designed to deal with the policing of
terrorism; (3) police governance since 1954 in terms of
both the procedures for remedying misconduct by
individual police officers, with the introduction of the
Police Complaints Authority and later the Independent
Police Complaints Commission, and the accountability of
the overall organisation and its policies, outlining the
restructuring and centralisation of police governance in
the 1990s epitomised by the Police Act 1996; and (4)
privatisation and pluralisation with the development of
private, municipal and civilian guards, officers and
wardens accompanied by the spread of technology, notably
closed circuit television, and the policy shift towards
privatisation from the mid 1980s and partnership under
the Labour Government with the strengthening of the
shifts in the management and provision of police
services under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
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‘Policing and the Media’. In
Handbook of Policing, 2nd. ed. edited by T.Newburn. (Willan
Publishing 2008)
This is one of the most ambitious books on policing ever
written. It aims to provide a comprehensive but highly readable overview of
policing in the UK, reflecting the transformations that have taken place in
recent years and the increasing professionalisation of one of the country's
most important services. It will be an essential text for anybody involved
in the study of policing as a subject in its own right or as part of a
broader criminal justice or criminology course, and a key source of
reference for the police themselves -- it is by far the most comprehensive
and authoritative book to have been written on the subject, combining the
expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners
themselves. It will become an essential point of reference at a time of
rapid change for the police, and constant debate about their role and
function.
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‘From Law and Order to Lynch Mobs: Crime News Since the Second World War’. (With
S. Livingstone and J. Allen) In Criminal Visions: Media Representations
of Crime and Justice, Edited by P.Mason. Willan Publishing 2003 pp.13-32.
Media representations of law and order are matters of keen
public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those
with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice.
Despite being an increasingly high
profile subject few publications address this subject
head on. This book aims to meet this need by bringing
together an important range of papers from leading
researchers in the field, addressing issues of
fictional, factual and hybrid representations in the
media -- the so called 'docu-dramas' and 'faction'.
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'Crime and Control in Britain'
Sociology 34:1 2000 pp. 71-94.
This paper explores the possible
patterns of crime and control in the twenty-first
century, drawing on an analysis of current and recent
developments.These suggest a dystopian prospect of
permanently high crime rates, and control strategies
that reinforce social division and exclusion.Current
‘third way’ policies for crime reduction may achieve
modest success, in part because they indirectly
encourage agencies to manipulate statistically recorded
outcomes to their advantage. They do not however tackle
the underlying sources of crime in the political economy
and culture of global capitalism, offering only
actuarial analyses of risk variation, and pragmatic
preventive interventions to reduce these. In the absence
of any broader changes to the social patterns which
generate high-crime societies the prospect is of
marginal palliatives for crime,which themselves have the
dysfunctional consequences of increasing segregation,
distrust and anxiety.
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