Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There has been very little discussion of the role of policing, which is carried out by a variety of agents, in relation to the role of the police, a specific group of people. Les Johnston argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of this group, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-private agents. He provides a new view opposed to models of police history which see the emergence of the new police (since 1829) as signalling a...
Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There has been very little disc...
Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There has been very little discussion of the role of policing, which is carried out by a variety of agents, in relation to the role of the police, a specific group of people. Les Johnston argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of this group, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents. He provides a new view opposed to models of police history which see the emergence of the new police (since 1829) as signalling a...
Until recently, private policing has been ignored by those pre-occupied with the activities of public police officers. There has been very little disc...
William Stanley Jevons was a self-proclaimed revolutionary, whose struggle under what he called the noxious authority of John Stuart Mill in economic circles is well-known. He was highly critical of the labour theory of value and the wages fund theory attributed to David Ricardo, and offered his own theory of exchange value which he contrasted to the many and preposterous notions of English Classical economists. Reactions to Jevons's work were often heated, but even while he generated much opposition, it is often posible to discern much admiration for Jevons, both as a researcher and as a...
William Stanley Jevons was a self-proclaimed revolutionary, whose struggle under what he called the noxious authority of John Stuart Mill in economic ...
Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in the governance of security - mentalities, institutions, technologies and practices used to promote secure environments. This book traces the nature of these governmental changes by looking at security. It examines a variety of related questions, including: * What significant changes have occurred in the governance of security? * What implications do these changes have for collective life? * What new imaginings may be needed to...
Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in ...
This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide an historical foundation to today's debates.
This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and ...
Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police (and policing) across the globe and associated forms of policing scholarship with inputs from Africa, Australia, South and Central America, China, Europe, and the USA. Following the introduction the book begins with a review of the nature of the relationship between policing research and practice with the Victoria Police in Australia and moves on to Britain where the focus is on how the National Improvement Strategy for Policing (NISP) is developing and how...
Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police (and policing) acro...
This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy Marxism to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this criticism is the suggestion that the problem of reductionism which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism s problem is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is not deterministic, for there is invariably an indeterminate relationship...
This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy Marxism to su...
