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Crime, Policing and the Provision of Service

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Every public service has been subject to the reforming zeal of a Conservative government committed to marketing the public sector in the name of improved efficiency. Yet it was not until the 1990s that the police were subjected to a similar experience. The police service was deemed to be an essential public order force and tool for the government as it embarked on a programme which would inevitably lead to confrontation with public sector unions in the 1980s. As Howard Davies was to argue succinctly in his Social Market Foundation pamphlet on the police:

Until the end of the miners’ strike in 1985, there was perhaps a sound political reason for leaving the police undisturbed… The industrial relations confrontations of the early 1980s certainly placed a high premium on the maintenance of an unquestionably loyal, disciplined and strike free police service. Subsequently the logic of non-intervention became less clear. (Davies, 1992: 28)

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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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Loveday, B. (1997). Crime, Policing and the Provision of Service. In: Francis, P., Davies, P., Jupp, V. (eds) Policing Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25980-9_6

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