Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy

Robert Reiner is Professor of Criminology in the Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Law and Order: An Honest Citizen’s Guide to Crime and Control (Polity Press 2007); and editor of (with M.Maguire and R.Morgan) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press, now in its 4th edition, 2007). He has published over 100 papers on criminological topics in journals and books. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6; Director of the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice 1995-8; and Convenor of the Law Department 2001-4. Professor Robert Reiner is the British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award winner for 2011.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Policing: The police, class and politics; The police in the class structure; Fuzzy thoughts: the police and law-and-order politics; In the office of Chief Constable; Policing a postmodern society; From PC Dixon to Dixon plc: policing and police powers since 1954 (with T. Newburn); Neophilia or back to basics? Policing research and the seductions of crime control; New theories of policing: a social democratic critique. Part II Popular Culture and Crime: The new blue films; True lies: changing images of crime in British postwar cinema, (with Jessica Allen and Sonia Livingstone); Media, crime, law and order. Part III Political Economy of Crime and Control: The state and British criminology; Crime and control in Britain; Beyond risk: a lament for social democratic criminology; Law and order - a 20:20 vision; Neo-liberalism, crime and criminal justice; The law and order trap; Citizenship, crime, criminalization: marshalling a social democratic perspective; List of publications; Name Index.

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