Maurice Punch
Biographic Data
| ID | 159062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice Punch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Punch |
| SIGNATURE | PUNCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Democratic principles and police fatal force
Researching law enforcement and public health
Academic and practitioner attention to law enforcement and public health/LEPH is relatively new. Its seemingly fresh promise can convey a picture of smart, joined-up and reflective inter-agency cooperation to assist the vulnerable and to support victims. But arriving at and establishing cooperation between the two worlds has been a prolonged and even vacillating process, while continuity may now be endangered. This Special Edition interrogates LE…
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles
The period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles' (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process. But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that tensions from the past remain unresolved. State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles reveals disturbing unanswered questions about the use of state violence during this period. Maurice Punch documents in chilling detail how the British government turned to …
Policing and police research in the age of the smart cop
I read the recent paper by Bradley and Nixon (2009) with much interest. And I shall reflect on it in relation to the two societies I know best, the UK and the Netherlands. When I first became inter
Strange union
Unions and policing are a relatively under‐researched area. But this paper, adopting a comparative approach, argues that police unions have been and still are influential, that they differ across cultures, and are involved in a variety of ways in police reform. They can be supportive of change, hostile to it, or closely involved in the reform process. Some are representative bodies where the police may not unionize while there are increasingly sp…
Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption (review)
Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption
Policing by Degrees
The British Police was established as an artisan organization that would develop its own leaders. This fostered continuous debate on the quality of leadership and proposals for lateral entry, which elicited sustained opposition from the Police Federation and politicians. By the 1960s, intense pressures to change led to an emphasis on recruiting graduates and support for university education. The Essex Police decided to send officers to university…
Fair Cop
Police integrity in the Netherlands and the United States
Police integrity is an important subject for both police theory and practice. This paper presents the results of survey research on the perceptions of police officers in the Netherlands and the USA on two specific aspects of integrity. First, their views on the seriousness of types of integrity violations and, second, the willingness to report deviant behavior (and to break the so-called 'wall of silence'), are examined. The Dutch police appeared…
Rotten Orchards
The literature on police corruption tends to be dominated by North American studies of widespread "grass-eating". By contrast, this article examines scandals in three European societies (Belgium, the Netherlands and Great Britain) requiring analysis at the system level. In all of these instances, police deviance was unlike much of that in North America: there was either gross failure in the system to perform adequately or systemic rule-bending to…
Police Corruption and its Prevention
Whistleblowers, the Public Interest, and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
Corporate crime and organisational deviance raise complex legal issues. An initial problem lies simply in identifying when such wrongdoing has occurred. Here, whistleblowers can perform a valuable service. However, publicized cases suggest that they often pay dearly for their candour, encountering unfair sanctions at work. In Britain, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 seeks to protect “good‐faith” whistleblowers from employer reprisals. In …
Dirty Business
Dirty Business
In the Underworld
This article records an interview with a professional Dutch criminal that illuminates certain aspects of the traditional Dutch underworld. The aim was twofold; to explore the nature of the underworld and to encourage fieldworkers to explore criminality through the biographies of criminals. The traditional underworld in The Netherlands has been replaced by ‘organised’ crime in the hands of Chinese, Turks, Israelis, Colombians, etc. ‘Aage M.’, as h…
Researching Police Deviance
Accounts of field-work occasionally reveal the stress, the deep personal involvement, the role-conflicts, and the time-consuming nature of observational studies for the researcher (e.g. Whyte, Wax, Hofland, Johnsonl). Clarke' has written of the anguish of certain anthropologists, causing some even to abandon the field setting; while Van Maanens has contrasted the rich oral tradition among academics, centred on what ostensibly 'really' happened in…
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Conduct Unbecoming
Speaking of Ethnography
The Idea of Police
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
Journal Article Control in The Police Organization Get access Control in the Police Organization. Ed. by Punch Maurice. (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 346. Richard J. Terrill Richard J. Terrill * Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 33, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 107–111, ht…
Rotten Orchards
The literature on police corruption tends to be dominated by North American studies of widespread "grass-eating". By contrast, this article examines scandals in three European societies (Belgium, the Netherlands and Great Britain) requiring analysis at the system level. In all of these instances, police deviance was unlike much of that in North America: there was either gross failure in the system to perform adequately or systemic rule-bending to…
Researching Police Deviance
Accounts of field-work occasionally reveal the stress, the deep personal involvement, the role-conflicts, and the time-consuming nature of observational studies for the researcher (e.g. Whyte, Wax, Hofland, Johnsonl). Clarke' has written of the anguish of certain anthropologists, causing some even to abandon the field setting; while Van Maanens has contrasted the rich oral tradition among academics, centred on what ostensibly 'really' happened in…
Researching law enforcement and public health
Academic and practitioner attention to law enforcement and public health/LEPH is relatively new. Its seemingly fresh promise can convey a picture of smart, joined-up and reflective inter-agency cooperation to assist the vulnerable and to support victims. But arriving at and establishing cooperation between the two worlds has been a prolonged and even vacillating process, while continuity may now be endangered. This Special Edition interrogates LE…
The Sociology of the Anti-Institution
Policing by Degrees
The British Police was established as an artisan organization that would develop its own leaders. This fostered continuous debate on the quality of leadership and proposals for lateral entry, which elicited sustained opposition from the Police Federation and politicians. By the 1960s, intense pressures to change led to an emphasis on recruiting graduates and support for university education. The Essex Police decided to send officers to university…
Backstage
Whistleblowers, the Public Interest, and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
Corporate crime and organisational deviance raise complex legal issues. An initial problem lies simply in identifying when such wrongdoing has occurred. Here, whistleblowers can perform a valuable service. However, publicized cases suggest that they often pay dearly for their candour, encountering unfair sanctions at work. In Britain, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 seeks to protect “good‐faith” whistleblowers from employer reprisals. In …
Control in the Police Organization
Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption
Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
Developing Scandal
In the midseventies, the Amsterdam police faced a major case of corruption for the first time The media reacted with relish and treated the case as a major journalistic scandal with prolonged coverage. Top members of the police were confused by the internal upheavals and acute external interest, and their inability to deal with a complex, changing environment lead to an escalation of internal unrest. This scandal reveals latent features of police…
The Sociology of the Anti-Institution
Frontline Amsterdam
Backstage
A Mild Case of Corruption
Progressive Retreat
Policing the Inner City
Policing the Inner City
Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
Developing Scandal
In the midseventies, the Amsterdam police faced a major case of corruption for the first time The media reacted with relish and treated the case as a major journalistic scandal with prolonged coverage. Top members of the police were confused by the internal upheavals and acute external interest, and their inability to deal with a complex, changing environment lead to an escalation of internal unrest. This scandal reveals latent features of police…
New Ethnographies
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
Journal Article Control in The Police Organization Get access Control in the Police Organization. Ed. by Punch Maurice. (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 346. Richard J. Terrill Richard J. Terrill * Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 33, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 107–111, ht…
Conduct Unbecoming
Speaking of Ethnography
The Idea of Police
Control in the Police Organization
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Researching Police Deviance
Accounts of field-work occasionally reveal the stress, the deep personal involvement, the role-conflicts, and the time-consuming nature of observational studies for the researcher (e.g. Whyte, Wax, Hofland, Johnsonl). Clarke' has written of the anguish of certain anthropologists, causing some even to abandon the field setting; while Van Maanens has contrasted the rich oral tradition among academics, centred on what ostensibly 'really' happened in…
In the Underworld
This article records an interview with a professional Dutch criminal that illuminates certain aspects of the traditional Dutch underworld. The aim was twofold; to explore the nature of the underworld and to encourage fieldworkers to explore criminality through the biographies of criminals. The traditional underworld in The Netherlands has been replaced by ‘organised’ crime in the hands of Chinese, Turks, Israelis, Colombians, etc. ‘Aage M.’, as h…
Dirty Business
Dirty Business
Police Corruption and its Prevention
Whistleblowers, the Public Interest, and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
Corporate crime and organisational deviance raise complex legal issues. An initial problem lies simply in identifying when such wrongdoing has occurred. Here, whistleblowers can perform a valuable service. However, publicized cases suggest that they often pay dearly for their candour, encountering unfair sanctions at work. In Britain, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 seeks to protect “good‐faith” whistleblowers from employer reprisals. In …
Police integrity in the Netherlands and the United States
Police integrity is an important subject for both police theory and practice. This paper presents the results of survey research on the perceptions of police officers in the Netherlands and the USA on two specific aspects of integrity. First, their views on the seriousness of types of integrity violations and, second, the willingness to report deviant behavior (and to break the so-called 'wall of silence'), are examined. The Dutch police appeared…
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (25 works) · Criminology (24 works) · Law (15 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Law (6 works)