Policing in Crisis?

Tracey Davanna is Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University. Federica Rossi is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University.

• IntroductionPart 1: Policing and Communities1. 50 Years of Policing and Community Organising in Brixton, by Amania Scott-Samuels and Matt Clement2. From ‘Police out of School’ to Solidarity With Child Q: Local Mobilisations, Wider Challenges, by Federica Rossi3. Avoiding a Reliance on Enforcement To Tackle Youth Violence, by James Alexander4. Interrogating ‘Innocence’: Imperfect Victims of Police Surveillance, by Hope Chilokoa-MullenPart 2: Policing and Protest5. On the Wrong Side of History: The Police Crackdown on Climate Protests in Britain, by Kevin Blowe6. Policing the Ecological Crisis: Public Order Policing, Human Rights and Environmental Activism, by Angus Nurse7. ‘Get in the Protest Pen’: The Limits of the Right To Protest and the Production of the Docile Protester, by Koshka Duff and Matthew Hall8. Foxhunting, Aggravated Trespass & the Calculated Use of Police Powers, by Tracey Davanna9. ‘To Protest While Black’: A Personal Account, by Destiny Boka BatesaPart 3: Policing and Gender10. Police Violence at the Clapham Common Vigil: An Interview With Patsy Stevenson, by Tracey Davanna11. From One Crisis to the Next: Examining the Relationship Between Police Crises and the British Sexual Violence Sector’s “Need” To Improve the Police, by Molly R Ackhurst12. Campaigning for Justice: Interview With Sukhdev Reel, by Shaminder Takhar13. ‘Absence Makes Your Friends Work Harder’: Group Loyalty, Machoism and the Crisis of Un-Wellbeing in the UK Police, by Siân Lewis and Jamie Ferrill

'By mobilizing academic research and insights from on-the-ground organizers, this volume brings into relief the stark crisis facing UK policing and the ways in which it is a permanent crisis stemming from the core nature of the policing institution. It will be certain to stimulate productive debates about how we produce truly safe and just communities.' Alex S. Vitale, City University of New York