Building a Global Police Studies Community

Marenin, Otwin

doi:10.1177/1098611104267329

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“…Increasingly, public police are part of a variously organized and changing network of organizations, companies, agencies, bodies, groups, and so forth (Otwin Marenin, 2005 [this issue], put it as "security regimes" and Clifford Shearing, 2005 [this issue], put it as "nodal networks") that attempt to create order and security in insecure places for a variety of reasons using a variety of means. The stability and legitimacy of government and law and the public police as an effective instrument of order and security cannot be assumed in many non-Western policing contexts.…”

Section: Globalizing Police Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police Studies Go Global: In Eastern Kentucky?

Murphy

2005

Police Quarterly

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Even before the global shock of 9/11, policing had become more global and less local in nature. This is evident in new macrolevel theorizing (i.e., Bayley & Shearing, 2001) about global policing developments conceptualized as part of broad social, political, and cultural processes such as postmodernity, globalization, governmentality, neoliberalism, managerialism, pluralization, and privatization. It is also evident in the sudden importance of global policing phenomena such as the growth of transnational policing efforts to fight international crime and, now, global terrorism; the increasing coordination and integration of national police agencies; the spread of international police training; the use of police in international peacekeeping; dramatic police reform in Northern Ireland, eastern Europe, South Africa, Iraq, and so forth; transnational relationships between public and private policing; and the growing global integration of police, military, and security networks and regimes.However, a review of most police studies journals and texts suggests that police studies, at least in North America, remain focused almost exclusively on the public police and their activities in largely urban, domestic settings. Driven by government funding and urban policy concerns, most police studies are local in focus and are essentially strategic studies of police activities and responses. Local police studies are primarily aimed at refining established police techniques, organization, and operations. As the fundamental sociopolitical and institutional questions concerning the role, legitimacy, organization, and functions of public police have already been settled in most Western countries, an exclusive emphasis on police organization

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Section: Globalizing Police Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police Studies Go Global: In Eastern Kentucky?

Murphy

2005

Police Quarterly

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“…The organization of democratic policing presents a general framework of values and principles to be safeguarded. What is most difficult is its implementation, since it requires the understanding of practices, cultures, and local politics (MARENIN, 2005). Higher education, in turn, is considered an important instrument of organizational change, as well as being constituted as a change of technical focus in skills for a reflexive model (PATERSON, 2011).…”

Section: Higher Education: a Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diploma para quê? A educação superior e os praças da Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais

Riccio

2017

Educ. Pesqui.

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Resumo O artigo analisa como policiais de baixa patente da Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais (praças) com formação superior percebem a sua organização, a sua carreira e a relação com a sociedade. A pesquisa aborda um ponto controverso no estudo sobre a polícia: o papel da educação superior. No caso brasileiro esta questão é reforçada pela existência de dois níveis hierárquicos em seus policiais militares: oficiais e praças. O estudo adotou metodologia qualitativa baseada em entrevistas semiestruturadas. A partir da análise dos dados, quatro categorias emergiram: capacidade crítica; conflitos hierárquicos; ausência de reconhecimento profissional; abandono da carreira. Em linhas gerais, os policiais apontam que a formação superior confere maior capacidade de discernimento nas ações cotidianas, mas também reforça os conflitos com o oficialato. Apesar disso, não há valorização pelo investimento pessoal realizado. Logo, esse contingente de novos policiais cada vez mais educados e capazes de fornecer uma base sólida para o exercício de um novo modelo de policiamento em sua maioria tem um único desejo: deixar a instituição. A pesquisa conclui que o modelo de dupla entrada das polícias brasileiras afasta os policiais com formação superior e aponta a necessidade de inserção do tema da mudança do modelo organizacional em uma agenda ampla de reformas das polícias.

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“…Enabling this informality is an underlying sense of community among the PLOs and among the police in general (Marenin 2005)—a community characterized by common experiences, common problems, and common goals and recognized, at least rhetorically, by many police officers, regardless of nationality:…”

Section: Plos Going Transnationalmentioning

confidence: 99%