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New Millennium ‘Blues’? Policing Past and Policing Futures

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It is approximately four decades ago, during the 1950s, that the British police first came under the gaze of the sociological and criminological telescope, since which time policing and law enforcement have become central to much intellectual, popular and political discourse and debate. Conventional wisdom on the trajectory of this relatively short period, as Downes and Morgan (1994) succinctly put it, is generally apocalyptic; things have deteriorated irreversibly since the golden days of the 1950s and the future of the police and policing looks bleak. Indeed, for some commentators it is a period in which the community ‘plod’, epitomized by Ted Willis’s PC George Dixon, first in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp and later in the BBC television programme Dixon of Dock Green, has been replaced by the ‘reactive pig’ or ‘reluctant bobby’, with a visored ‘Robocop’ or ‘Darth Vader’ armed and waiting around the millennium corner.

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  1. University of Northumbria, Newcastle, Australia

    Peter Francis (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology), Pamela Davies (Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) & Victor Jupp (Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology),  (Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) &  (Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology)

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Francis, P., Davies, P., Jupp, V. (1997). New Millennium ‘Blues’? Policing Past and Policing Futures. In: Francis, P., Davies, P., Jupp, V. (eds) Policing Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25980-9_1

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