Category Archives: Rob Reiner

Jan 30 2012

We must acknowledge the limits of policing and punishment in the absence of social justice

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Robert Reiner argues that it is time we re-evaluated our ‘common sense’ conceptions of the role of the police, and started to take seriously the notion that socio-economically rooted pressures generating criminality have been suppressed, but not tackled, by the decades of getting tough … Continue reading

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Mar 18 2010

Who put politics into the police?

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There must be an election coming. The current debate in Britain about the politicisation of the police is analytically confused and historically amnesiac, with both Labour and the Conservatives looking like participants in an orgy of political cross-dressing. Professor Robert … Continue reading

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