This book, for the first time, provided a comprehensive criminological study of the police service, described by the police themselves. Her major contribution is the term “the police gaze”, namely that the police are trained to look for something that deviates from the norm. She addresses the “stop and search” practice seen from the police.
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Doctoral and Early Career Training School 'Researching the Experiences of Police Stops' - Call for Expressions of Interest
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Identifying and tackling problematic or abusive forms of police selectivity.
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An action research on the problematic practices and/or mechanisms of police district of Schaerbeek-Evere-St-Josse (PolBruNo). Carroll Tange and Sarah Van…
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George Floyd
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Watching a police officer murder a man in full view is horrifying. We feel suffocated watching it – but it…
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Polstops partners at the ESC2019
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Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about Polstops at the European Society of Criminology! Megan O’Neill will be chairing…
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