Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain: A Genealogy

Paul R. Betts 2024. Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain: A Genealogy. Springer Nature.

TitleCritiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain: A Genealogy
AuthorsPaul R. Betts
Abstract

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 EBP's 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. EBP's 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.

KeywordsFoucault
police reform
neoliberalism
politics and police
political science
political sociology
political discourse
critical policing
EBP
what works in policing
policing policy
Year2024
PublisherSpringer Nature
Publication dates
Published09 Jul 2024
ISBN9783031592935
9783031592942
ISSN2731-0604
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59294-2
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