This dissertation examines the history and development of social control and policing in Nigeria within the framework of the hypothesis that the colonial, and later the postcolonial, police were organized mainly to serve the capitalist and economic needs of colonialism. Adopting…
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This dissertation investigates the way in which institutions shape the contours of contemporary state violence. It does so by asking why Serbia supported “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia during 1992, the first year of Bosnia's independence, while Israel engaged in a policy of “ethni…
Security sector reform has in the recent past been a critical component of peace agreements in countries emerging from armed conflicts or political crisis. In Kenya, the Commission of Inquiry into the 2007/08 Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) established that Kenya’s security secto…
Anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) has become important socially, politically and culturally in the United Kingdom over the past fifteen years. Successive Governments have prioritised tackling ASB, with a plethora of legislation being introduced to tackle low-level nuisance beha…
There is a growing political discourse in Scotland acknowledging alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often …
This thesis examines the development of the Home Affairs policies of the New Labour Government (1997-2010) - specifically in the areas of counter-terrorism, policing, and immigration. Much of the most significant research on this government has focussed on political economy or p…
Three main areas are addressed: smuggling as a commercial activity; as a form of social crime; and as a problem of policing. The claim that the violence of the Sussex smugglers in the 1740s was atypical is scrutinised, adopting a comparative approach between regions and over tim…
Policing in the UK is undergoing fundamental transformation. In an emerging 'mixedeconomy' of social control, policing has become a complex assortment of public and privateinputs. As non-emergency policing has gradually shifted away from the Home Office policeservice monopoly, t…
Much has been written on the revanchist city (for example Smith, 1996; MacLeod, 2002; Belina and Helms, 2003) and the reclaiming of space from so-called ‘undesirables‘ through the means of the police. Here, the guiding ideas are policing strategies such as the ‘broken windows sy…
This thesis achieves four objectives. Firstly, it adds to the existing knowledge of radicalisation: it discusses the concept, and contextualises it within other forms of social phenomena such as drug-related crime. Secondly, it proposes a menu of indicators which predict or fore…
The inhabitants of the Roman Empire drew on a variety of methods to enforce laws, encourage public order, and promote state control. While the empire lacked any institution fully comparable to modern police forces, this dissertation examines several groups of men who were armed …
This study defines democracy, describes democratic policing, analyzes the development of democratic policing principles in the developing country of Turkey and contends that democracy can be enduring only when the police embody democratic values. As Turkey transforms itself in o…
This dissertation aims to contribute to a better understanding of the changing relations between government and general populace in Ottoman Istanbul during the late eighteenth century. The wide-spread treatment of the eighteenth century as one of decentralization, decline and ap…
Power-sharing theory proposes democratic strategies for managing conflict in deeply-divided societies. The power-sharing literature has been dominated by a debate between two models of power-sharing, the consociational model proposed by Arend Lijphart and the integrative or ince…
This dissertation explores ethnographic, archival and survey findings related to the Women's Police Directorate, a separate unit for policewomen in Bahrain, which handles cases involving women and children as victims, witness and offenders. Historically, the segregation of femal…
Prior research on terrorism has argued that local law enforcement play an important role in counterterrorism though the mechanisms by which the police should prevent terrorism are empirically unsettled and atheoretical in nature. Even less understood is how policing might differ…
The prevailing wisdom in the political science literature holds that insurgent groups serve their own interests most effectively when they use selective violence against suspected collaborators hidden amongst their constituents. By targeting those that are believed to be disloya…
The neoliberal era has witnessed rapid and fundamental transformations in criminal justice institutions, expanding their role around the globe as charted by a variety of scholars. This dissertation takes up the case of Turkey, where a new neoliberal- politics of crime has been s…
The thesis explores the role of academic education in police professionalisation. Due to its high complexity, specialisation and status, detective work is well-suited for illustrating these developments and the practical and symbolic benefits they can bring to the police and pol…