Name: Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain
ISBN: 978-3-031-59293-5

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Authors:

Paul Betts ⁰

Paul Betts
1. University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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Challenges EBP's positioning as a neutral science-based approach to policing policy
Provides a detailed discussion of EBP's key ideas debates story-lines subject positions and institutional changes
Draws on the author's subject position a senior police officer and academic

Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)

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Keywords

Foucault
police reform
neoliberalism
politics and police
political science
political sociology
political discourse
critical policing
EBP
what works in policing
policing policy

About this book

Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis and analytical research into the texts produced by EBP. It presents a new history of EBP presented around EBPs story-lines, subject positions and the institutional changes it has created. This history shows EBP shares a genealogical heritage with modern discourses of managerialism and neoliberalism. EBPs roots are traced and it is re-presented as an extension of the problematic relationship in the production of criminological knowledge and the British state. This history fundamentally challenges the notion on which EBP rests: basing policing policy upon independent, robust knowledge. Instead this book argues EBP should be subject to greater illumination and challenge, suggesting EBP is a contestable device that is doing political work. It speaks to those interested in policing, critical criminology and political science.

Authors and Affiliations

University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Paul Betts

About the author

Dr Paul Betts retired as a police officer in March 2023, completing over 28 years’ service. His final role was a Detective Chief Superintendent seconded to Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters, New Scotland Yard, London, UK, where he served as the National Prevent Coordinator. Paul is now a senior lecturer in Policing at Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, London, UK. He is also Honorary Fellow in Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is Honorary Professor of Criminal Justice at the Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain
Book Subtitle: A Genealogy
Authors: Paul Betts
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59293-5Due: 05 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59296-6Due: 05 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59294-2Due: 05 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

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