Nicholas R Fyfe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 380663 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas R Fyfe |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas R |
| APELLIDO | Fyfe |
| FIRMA | FYFE N R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9961-1191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 451 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing
This article analyses ambiguity and complexity in proactive policing practices and identifies the paradox that despite the focus on increasing proactivity, police work remains strongly reactive. Drawing on a set of Norwegian case studies of policing in different domains, the article shows how under an overarching objective of ‘combating crime’, the distinctions between non-coercive (mainly proactive) forms of prevention or (mainly reactive) metho…
The Urban Geography Reader
Drawing on a rich diversity of theoretical approaches and analytical strategies, urban geographers have been at the forefront of understanding the global and local processes shaping cities, and of making sense of the urban experiences of a wide variety of social groups. Through their links with those working in the fields of urban policy design, urban geographers have also played an important role in the analysis of the economic and social proble…
Plural policing in Europe
References to ‘plural policing’, ‘policing beyond the police’ and the ‘extended policing family’ are now commonplace in many discussions of policing in late modern societies. There is a danger that claims about the dynamic and changing nature of plural policing themselves become a new orthodoxy and begin to lose a sense of local nuance and recognition of the importance of place-based specificity and context in understanding the particularities of…
Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland
In 2013 the governments of the Netherlands and Scotland established national police forces, replacing a tradition of largely autonomous regional police organizations. In both jurisdictions, these radical reforms have raised concerns about the consequences of these national police structures for local policing and for relationships with local communities and local government. Drawing on documentary sources and interview material from each jurisdic…
Living Absence
In this paper 'missing people' gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice of absence. We explore 'missing experience' with reference to homeless geographies, and as constituted by paradoxical spatialities in which people are both absent and present. We seek to understand such urban geographies of absence through diverse voices of missing…
Policy processes and police reform
Missing persons
Responding to reports of missing persons represents one of the biggest demands on the resources of police organisations. In the UK, for example, it is estimated that over 300,000 missing persons incidents are recorded by the police each year which means that a person in the UK is recorded missing by the police approximately every two minutes. However, there is a complex web of behaviours that surround the phenomenon of missing persons which can m…
Knowledge exchange and police practice
Th(e) bare-bones premise – that operations should be informed by knowledge – is so elementary and so evident, that one feels apologetic in drawing attention to it. ... [Yet] there is no discernible
Missing geographies
This paper argues that human geography has neglected the issue of ‘missing people’. Following an introduction, the paper uses four thematics, ‘mapping, searching, feeling and moving’, in order to explore a range of responses to missing absence and missing experience. It argues that attention to the voices of returned adult missing people would help establish new emotional geographies of embodied absence which would complement, and in places chall…
The Tertiary Turn
Activists often strategically negotiate sectoral boundaries by switching between public, private and voluntary sectors over the life course in order to pursue their aims. This paper draws on a cross-national study that explored the extent of this inter-sectoral movement and the specific “career pathways” activists developed in relation to governmental, private and voluntary/community sector organisations. Using an analysis of 46 biographical narr…
The third sector in a devolved Scotland
Scotland's post-devolution government has implemented a number of policies engaging with the third sector. These sit within the UK context of New Labour's welfare reform with its twin emphases on neoliberalism and neo-communitarianism. Moves by the Scottish Executive to translate these themes into the Scottish context are illustrated by policies on the relation between the state and third sector organizations, on the social economy, and on volunt…
(In)civility and the City
Respectable or Respectful? (In)civility and the City
Do we stand before a rising tide of incivility, of disrespect? Or, is this the latest moral panic? Examining (the UK) New Labour's approach to incivility in the city, as manifest in the respect and urban renaissance agendas, this paper argues that the current zero-tolerance approach to incivility is based upon a confused understanding of anti-social behaviour and contradictory evidence of its occurrence and impact. Ultimately, it is proposed that…
Space, time and the vulnerable witness
Focusing on a specific vulnerable group (witnesses to crimes who have experienced or fear intimidation from offenders and their associates), this paper examines attempts by policy‐makers to address their anxieties and fears, and the impact of experiencing intimidation on the witnesses themselves. The first section traces the ‘discovery’ by policy‐makers of vulnerable witnesses in Britain in the mid‐1990s and how this led to the introduction of a …
Making Space for "Neo-communitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
During the 1990s the urban became an important “institutional laboratory” for state-initiated policy experiments to address the social costs and political repercussions of economic polarisation and social exclusion associated with neo-liberalism. One such policy experiment has been neo-communitarianism, emphasising the contribution of the “third sector” to improving social welfare and reinvigorating a sense of civil society. Focusing on the UK, I…
Preserving Space for Volunteers
While contemporary social and political theory views voluntary activity as key to the promotion of active citizenship, this paper argues that the connections between voluntary welfare associations and citizenship are more complex than these discourses allow. Drawing on research undertaken in the Scottish city of Glasgow and debates about an increased bifurcation of the voluntary sector, it considers how the different settings within which volunta…
Putting the Voluntary Sector in its Place
The growing political and social significance of the voluntary sector in contemporary welfare reform is reflected in a wide body of research that has emerged in the political and social policy literature since the mid-1980s. While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial. Yet, geographical perspectives offer important insights into the development of…
Out of the shadows
Against a background of concerns about the ability of advanced capitalist states to meet the welfare needs of their populations, the erosion of citizenship and declining social capital, voluntarism is increasingly presented in political and academic discourses as a ‘panacea’ to social and political problems facing liberal democracies. Building on human geographers' established interests in this field, this paper focuses on contemporary developmen…
Space, Citizenship, and Voluntarism
Faced with anxieties about meeting welfare needs, and worries about the nature and meaning of citizenship, there is evidence of increasing state-initiated moves to develop the role and responsibilities of voluntary associations. Existing research suggests, however, that there are tensions between the spatial distribution of voluntary resources and welfare needs, and that the relationship between voluntary activity and active citizenship is more c…
Crime, Policing and Place
Introduction Part I: Methodologies and Sources 1. Explanations of Crime and Place Anthony E. Bottoms, University of Cambridge and Paul Wiles, University of Sheffield 2. Left Realism and the Spatial Study of Crime David J. Evans, Staffordshire Polytechnic 3. Local Area Crime Profiles: Neighbourhood Crime Patterns in Context R. Norman Davidson, University of Hull and Trevor Locke, Coventry City Council 4. Is There a Role for Spatial Information Sys…
Introduction
Police protection of intimidated witnesses
Against a background of growing concern about the murder and attempted murder of witnesses giving evidence in cases of serious and organised crime, several police forces in the UK have established specialist units to permanently relocate witnesses whose lives are in danger. Modelled largely on similar units operating in the US, the first part of the paper looks at the US experience of providing high level witness protection. The paper then draws …
Witness Intimidation, Forced Migration and Resettlement
Situated within the context of geographical research on forced migration, this paper focuses on the experiences of prosecution witnesses who have had to flee their homes because of life‐threatening intimidation. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with witnesses, it examines the nature of the threat they were under, their decision to leave home, their life in temporary accommodation and their experiences of permanent resettlement away from the danger …
Desperately Seeking Safety
The role of witnesses in assisting police investigations and giving evidence in court is crucial to the success of criminal prosecutions. Since the mid-1990s, however, there has been growing concern in the UK about the intimidation of witnesses aimed at deterring them from reporting crime or giving evidence. Drawing on in-depth interviews with prosecution witnesses subject to very serious and, in some cases, life-threatening intimidation, this pa…
Evidence-based policing
Evidence-based policing: translating research into practice." Policing and Society, 29(9), pp. 1126–1127
Out of the shadows
Against a background of concerns about the ability of advanced capitalist states to meet the welfare needs of their populations, the erosion of citizenship and declining social capital, voluntarism is increasingly presented in political and academic discourses as a ‘panacea’ to social and political problems facing liberal democracies. Building on human geographers' established interests in this field, this paper focuses on contemporary developmen…
Making Space for "Neo-communitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
During the 1990s the urban became an important “institutional laboratory” for state-initiated policy experiments to address the social costs and political repercussions of economic polarisation and social exclusion associated with neo-liberalism. One such policy experiment has been neo-communitarianism, emphasising the contribution of the “third sector” to improving social welfare and reinvigorating a sense of civil society. Focusing on the UK, I…
The police, space and society
Preserving Space for Volunteers
While contemporary social and political theory views voluntary activity as key to the promotion of active citizenship, this paper argues that the connections between voluntary welfare associations and citizenship are more complex than these discourses allow. Drawing on research undertaken in the Scottish city of Glasgow and debates about an increased bifurcation of the voluntary sector, it considers how the different settings within which volunta…
Space, Citizenship, and Voluntarism
Faced with anxieties about meeting welfare needs, and worries about the nature and meaning of citizenship, there is evidence of increasing state-initiated moves to develop the role and responsibilities of voluntary associations. Existing research suggests, however, that there are tensions between the spatial distribution of voluntary resources and welfare needs, and that the relationship between voluntary activity and active citizenship is more c…
Introduction
Respectable or Respectful? (In)civility and the City
Do we stand before a rising tide of incivility, of disrespect? Or, is this the latest moral panic? Examining (the UK) New Labour's approach to incivility in the city, as manifest in the respect and urban renaissance agendas, this paper argues that the current zero-tolerance approach to incivility is based upon a confused understanding of anti-social behaviour and contradictory evidence of its occurrence and impact. Ultimately, it is proposed that…
Race, Riots and Policing
Part 1 Lost times, forgotten places: from bad to worse? - policing and British Black communities contested fictions - local histories and glimpses of the past. Part 2 1981: that summer in London - Shaggy dog and copycat rioters the riots in London as a moral panic blame, guilt and causes of riots the reality of insurrection? - empiricism and the search for the average rioter. Part 3 Grief: front line policing in the 1980s building stages for conf…
Missing geographies
This paper argues that human geography has neglected the issue of ‘missing people’. Following an introduction, the paper uses four thematics, ‘mapping, searching, feeling and moving’, in order to explore a range of responses to missing absence and missing experience. It argues that attention to the voices of returned adult missing people would help establish new emotional geographies of embodied absence which would complement, and in places chall…
Space, Time, and Policing
Studies of policing have been dominated by two types of approach: those that are focused on the minutiae of routine police work and those that are concerned with the sociolegal contexts of policing. In this paper an attempt is made to connect these two approaches by the development of a contextual understanding of police work. The author's own and other ethnographic police research in the United Kingdom are woven together to examine the time-spac…
(In)civility and the City
Missing persons
Responding to reports of missing persons represents one of the biggest demands on the resources of police organisations. In the UK, for example, it is estimated that over 300,000 missing persons incidents are recorded by the police each year which means that a person in the UK is recorded missing by the police approximately every two minutes. However, there is a complex web of behaviours that surround the phenomenon of missing persons which can m…
Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain
Living Absence
In this paper 'missing people' gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice of absence. We explore 'missing experience' with reference to homeless geographies, and as constituted by paradoxical spatialities in which people are both absent and present. We seek to understand such urban geographies of absence through diverse voices of missing…
Putting the Voluntary Sector in its Place
The growing political and social significance of the voluntary sector in contemporary welfare reform is reflected in a wide body of research that has emerged in the political and social policy literature since the mid-1980s. While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial. Yet, geographical perspectives offer important insights into the development of…
Witness Intimidation, Forced Migration and Resettlement
Situated within the context of geographical research on forced migration, this paper focuses on the experiences of prosecution witnesses who have had to flee their homes because of life‐threatening intimidation. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with witnesses, it examines the nature of the threat they were under, their decision to leave home, their life in temporary accommodation and their experiences of permanent resettlement away from the danger …
The third sector in a devolved Scotland
Scotland's post-devolution government has implemented a number of policies engaging with the third sector. These sit within the UK context of New Labour's welfare reform with its twin emphases on neoliberalism and neo-communitarianism. Moves by the Scottish Executive to translate these themes into the Scottish context are illustrated by policies on the relation between the state and third sector organizations, on the social economy, and on volunt…
Policing the City
Observations on observations
Observational fieldwork enables the completion of a qualitative research project despite the tight constraints of a research methods course. At the same time, the project enables the illustration of more general features of qualitative research. This paper considers the need to deconstruct the ‘folk myth’ surrounding observational work and provides clear, practical guidance on completing a piece of research. Completion of the project helps to unc…
Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland
In 2013 the governments of the Netherlands and Scotland established national police forces, replacing a tradition of largely autonomous regional police organizations. In both jurisdictions, these radical reforms have raised concerns about the consequences of these national police structures for local policing and for relationships with local communities and local government. Drawing on documentary sources and interview material from each jurisdic…
Making Space for the Citizen
(1993). MAKING SPACE FOR THE CITIZEN?: THE (IN) SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UK CITIZEN'S CHARTER. Urban Geography: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 224-227
Commentary on Policing Space
Contested Visions of a Modern City
The author draws on the distinctions between representations of space and spaces of representation contained in Lefebvre's Production of Space, and examines the postwar modernisation of Glasgow. In the first part of the paper he considers the images of the city presented in the city's two postwar master plans; one drawn up by central government, the other by local government. These two very different representations of the space of Glasgow as a m…
Controlling the Local Spaces of Democracy and Liberty
Housing Policies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Introduction 1. Housing Policy in Eastern Europe and The Soviet Union John Sillince 2. Poland Andrew Dawson 3. Czechoslovakia David Short 4. Romania David Turnock 5. Bulgaria Frank Carter 6. Soviet Union Gregory Andrusz 7. German Democratic Republic Hans Buchholz 8. Albania Derek Hall 9. Yugoslavia Shaun Topham 10. Hungary Gabor Locsmandi and John Sillince 11. Conclusion John Sillince Index
The police, space and society
Observations on observations
Observational fieldwork enables the completion of a qualitative research project despite the tight constraints of a research methods course. At the same time, the project enables the illustration of more general features of qualitative research. This paper considers the need to deconstruct the ‘folk myth’ surrounding observational work and provides clear, practical guidance on completing a piece of research. Completion of the project helps to unc…
Space, Time, and Policing
Studies of policing have been dominated by two types of approach: those that are focused on the minutiae of routine police work and those that are concerned with the sociolegal contexts of policing. In this paper an attempt is made to connect these two approaches by the development of a contextual understanding of police work. The author's own and other ethnographic police research in the United Kingdom are woven together to examine the time-spac…
Making Space for the Citizen
(1993). MAKING SPACE FOR THE CITIZEN?: THE (IN) SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UK CITIZEN'S CHARTER. Urban Geography: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 224-227
Housing Policies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Introduction 1. Housing Policy in Eastern Europe and The Soviet Union John Sillince 2. Poland Andrew Dawson 3. Czechoslovakia David Short 4. Romania David Turnock 5. Bulgaria Frank Carter 6. Soviet Union Gregory Andrusz 7. German Democratic Republic Hans Buchholz 8. Albania Derek Hall 9. Yugoslavia Shaun Topham 10. Hungary Gabor Locsmandi and John Sillince 11. Conclusion John Sillince Index
Race, Riots and Policing
Part 1 Lost times, forgotten places: from bad to worse? - policing and British Black communities contested fictions - local histories and glimpses of the past. Part 2 1981: that summer in London - Shaggy dog and copycat rioters the riots in London as a moral panic blame, guilt and causes of riots the reality of insurrection? - empiricism and the search for the average rioter. Part 3 Grief: front line policing in the 1980s building stages for conf…
Controlling the Local Spaces of Democracy and Liberty
Policing the City
Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain
Contested Visions of a Modern City
The author draws on the distinctions between representations of space and spaces of representation contained in Lefebvre's Production of Space, and examines the postwar modernisation of Glasgow. In the first part of the paper he considers the images of the city presented in the city's two postwar master plans; one drawn up by central government, the other by local government. These two very different representations of the space of Glasgow as a m…
Commentary on Policing Space
Images of the Street
Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural geography, sociolgy, cultural studies and planning to explore the making and meaning of urban space. Among the themes examined are:1.the way streetscapes are shaped by interplay between politics, planning and local political economy 2.social differences of…
From Critic to Practitioner
Police protection of intimidated witnesses
Against a background of growing concern about the murder and attempted murder of witnesses giving evidence in cases of serious and organised crime, several police forces in the UK have established specialist units to permanently relocate witnesses whose lives are in danger. Modelled largely on similar units operating in the US, the first part of the paper looks at the US experience of providing high level witness protection. The paper then draws …
Witness Intimidation, Forced Migration and Resettlement
Situated within the context of geographical research on forced migration, this paper focuses on the experiences of prosecution witnesses who have had to flee their homes because of life‐threatening intimidation. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with witnesses, it examines the nature of the threat they were under, their decision to leave home, their life in temporary accommodation and their experiences of permanent resettlement away from the danger …
Desperately Seeking Safety
The role of witnesses in assisting police investigations and giving evidence in court is crucial to the success of criminal prosecutions. Since the mid-1990s, however, there has been growing concern in the UK about the intimidation of witnesses aimed at deterring them from reporting crime or giving evidence. Drawing on in-depth interviews with prosecution witnesses subject to very serious and, in some cases, life-threatening intimidation, this pa…
Introduction
Crime, Policing and Place
Introduction Part I: Methodologies and Sources 1. Explanations of Crime and Place Anthony E. Bottoms, University of Cambridge and Paul Wiles, University of Sheffield 2. Left Realism and the Spatial Study of Crime David J. Evans, Staffordshire Polytechnic 3. Local Area Crime Profiles: Neighbourhood Crime Patterns in Context R. Norman Davidson, University of Hull and Trevor Locke, Coventry City Council 4. Is There a Role for Spatial Information Sys…
Out of the shadows
Against a background of concerns about the ability of advanced capitalist states to meet the welfare needs of their populations, the erosion of citizenship and declining social capital, voluntarism is increasingly presented in political and academic discourses as a ‘panacea’ to social and political problems facing liberal democracies. Building on human geographers' established interests in this field, this paper focuses on contemporary developmen…
Space, Citizenship, and Voluntarism
Faced with anxieties about meeting welfare needs, and worries about the nature and meaning of citizenship, there is evidence of increasing state-initiated moves to develop the role and responsibilities of voluntary associations. Existing research suggests, however, that there are tensions between the spatial distribution of voluntary resources and welfare needs, and that the relationship between voluntary activity and active citizenship is more c…
Putting the Voluntary Sector in its Place
The growing political and social significance of the voluntary sector in contemporary welfare reform is reflected in a wide body of research that has emerged in the political and social policy literature since the mid-1980s. While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial. Yet, geographical perspectives offer important insights into the development of…
Space, time and the vulnerable witness
Focusing on a specific vulnerable group (witnesses to crimes who have experienced or fear intimidation from offenders and their associates), this paper examines attempts by policy‐makers to address their anxieties and fears, and the impact of experiencing intimidation on the witnesses themselves. The first section traces the ‘discovery’ by policy‐makers of vulnerable witnesses in Britain in the mid‐1990s and how this led to the introduction of a …
Making Space for "Neo-communitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
During the 1990s the urban became an important “institutional laboratory” for state-initiated policy experiments to address the social costs and political repercussions of economic polarisation and social exclusion associated with neo-liberalism. One such policy experiment has been neo-communitarianism, emphasising the contribution of the “third sector” to improving social welfare and reinvigorating a sense of civil society. Focusing on the UK, I…
Preserving Space for Volunteers
While contemporary social and political theory views voluntary activity as key to the promotion of active citizenship, this paper argues that the connections between voluntary welfare associations and citizenship are more complex than these discourses allow. Drawing on research undertaken in the Scottish city of Glasgow and debates about an increased bifurcation of the voluntary sector, it considers how the different settings within which volunta…
The third sector in a devolved Scotland
Scotland's post-devolution government has implemented a number of policies engaging with the third sector. These sit within the UK context of New Labour's welfare reform with its twin emphases on neoliberalism and neo-communitarianism. Moves by the Scottish Executive to translate these themes into the Scottish context are illustrated by policies on the relation between the state and third sector organizations, on the social economy, and on volunt…
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