The Political Economy of Law-and-Order Policies: Policing, Class Struggle, and Neoliberal Restructuring

Gordon, Todd

doi:10.1080/19187033.2005.11675129

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“…The above comments from officers reflect our earlier discussion on the dominance of law-and-order policing in the US and the way in which a neoliberal rationality has increasingly placed an emphasis on the volume of tactics like SQF as performance measures where community members are viewed as problems and targets (Gordon, 2005;Murphy, 2007;Reiner, 2007). As discussed earlier, in Scotland intense levels of political and media scrutiny of policing have emerged in recent years.…”

Section: Policy Changes Reduced Sense Of Empowerment and Alternative ...mentioning

confidence: 75%

Cops in crisis?: ethnographic insights on a new era of politicization, activism, accountability, and change in transatlantic policing

Deuchar

Crichlow

Fallik

2019

Policing and Society

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Against the complex backdrop of a post-modern era, characterized by a renewed emphasis on public accountability, oppositional social and political movements, it has been argued that traditional agents of social control have increasingly begun to experience a sense of disempowerment. Nowhere has this been more apparent than within the context of policing, where the increased influence of the mass media, social media, and newly empowered groups has led to an apparent legitimacy crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. To better understand officers' views, attitudes, and perspectives about the changing landscape of policing, this paper reports on insights from a comparative study involving participant observation in two counties in a Southern State in the United States of America and three inner-city areas in Scotland. The observations were paired with in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 American and 22 Scottish officers. The data suggest that officers on both sides of the Atlantic are hostile towards the increasing influence of new forms of media and digital activism. Many officers also expressed concern for declining public cooperation and perceived there to have been a general diminution of police authority and enforcement tactics. Finally, there was a general feeling of reduced officer self-legitimacy among the participants but an increased awareness of procedural justice and alternative (and more covert) enforcement strategies. The implications from these findings are discussed in terms of changing perceptions of justice, legitimacy, social ideology, and the proposed consequences for rights-based policing in the 21 st Century.

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Cops in crisis?: ethnographic insights on a new era of politicization, activism, accountability, and change in transatlantic policing

Deuchar

Crichlow

Fallik

2019

Policing and Society

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“…In the context of welfare retrenchment and investment in a carceral system response to poverty (Gilmore, 2007; Wacquant, 2009), a moral panic around the sex trade, drug use, and homelessness in public space convinced policymakers across the United States to support primarily punitive rather than social welfare responses to visible poverty (Gordon, 2016). This punitive turn has disproportionately targeted queer and trans people of color, whose identities and earning activities are more frequently criminalized (Hail-Jares et al., 2017; Mogul et al., 2011; Oselin et al., 2020; Ritchie, 2017).…”

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The carceral production of transgender poverty: How racialized gender policing deprives transgender women of housing and safety

Yarbrough

2021

Punishment & Society

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Based on interviews and ethnography, this article analyzes how racialized gender policing in public space and service organizations deprives transgender women of survival resources. Although transgender women are disproportionately the targets of enforcement, most studies of the criminalization of homelessness, drug use, sex work and migration exclude their experiences. Studies that do include transgender women often focus narrowly on anti-prostitution laws and enforcement, overlooking other laws and policies that contribute to criminalization and poverty. This article analyzes the confluence between policing of transgender women’s identities and survival strategies in public space and in agencies meant to serve poor people (including shelters, drug treatment facilities and transitional living programs). Laws regulating access to public space combine with rules regulating gender in service organizations to both criminalize and create transgender poverty. More broadly, the carceral production of transgender poverty demonstrates that criminalization is not only a consequence but also a cause of both poverty and inequality.

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“…Thousands of welfare recipients were forced into the lower ends of the job market by disentitlement or obligatory workfare. Life on the street was made even more unpleasant by the Safe Streets Act, which unleashed the police on squeegee kids and 'aggressive panhandlers' (O'Grady & Bright, 2002;Gordon, 2005). Truants and young offenders were increasingly funneled into 'strict discipline facilities' in a last-ditch effort to make them suitable citizens/workers (Government of Ontario, 2001).…”

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Negotiating a coercive turn: Work discipline and prison reform in Ontario

McElligott¹

2007

Capital & Class

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Prisons and crime are still widely seen as concerning fields of state action that are distinct from social or labour-market policy. This article looks at the way neoconservative attacks on the remnants of the Keynesian welfare state reflect a ‘penal management of poverty’ that blurs such distinctions. This approach presages a dramatically increased role for state and state-contracted coercion aimed at labour and the poor. But such escalations do not happen automatically, and are still vulnerable to effective resistance, as this article will show.

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The Political Economy of Law-and-Order Policies: Policing, Class Struggle, and Neoliberal Restructuring

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Cops in crisis?: ethnographic insights on a new era of politicization, activism, accountability, and change in transatlantic policing

Cops in crisis?: ethnographic insights on a new era of politicization, activism, accountability, and change in transatlantic policing

The carceral production of transgender poverty: How racialized gender policing deprives transgender women of housing and safety

Negotiating a coercive turn: Work discipline and prison reform in Ontario

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