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dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:23:53Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:23:53Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-05-14T09:57:41Z
dc.identifier.issn0925-4994
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/22956
dc.description.abstractPublic debate about post 9/11 policing presumes for the most part that the world changed fundamentally at that point and that policing powers and tactics have altered in response. For some people, largely defenders of the necessity of a strong security stance, the changes have been possibly not enough. For others, opponents of the security state, the changes represent a latest installment in an always threatening rise of totalitarian policing. Seen in macro-perspective these views represent the politics of security, helping to shape, modulate, contain, expand, limit the powers available to police, and the possible uses of them. These opposing views, very often highly antagonistic in expression, are part of the politics, and do not stand outside them. They have also been heard before. In seeking to understand what policing means for stable societies under threat of political violence, this article examines some key transitions in the development of security policing over the last 100 years in Australia, highlighting some of the contextual features that have shaped them. In doing so it will suggest that apocalyptic rhetoric is part of the politics of policing, shared by both advocates and opponents of tougher policing, and in tension with the more sober realities of a policing that operates within a framework of enabling as well as limiting conditions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7
dc.relation.ispartofpageto24
dc.relation.ispartofissue1-2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCrime, Law and Social Change
dc.relation.ispartofvolume50
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleThe public rhetorics of policing in times of war and violence: countering apocalyptic visions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFinnane, Mark J.


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