P A J Waddington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P A J Waddington |
| GIVEN NAMES | P A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Waddington |
| SIGNATURE | WADDINGTON P A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Training of Prison Governors
This book, first published in 1983, examines in detail the training of the key group of people within the British prison system: prison governors. It shows how problems, endemic to the prison system, influences their training; how staff seek to construct a coherent training course and how recruits struggle to come to terms with their ambiguous new role. It describes how attitudes towards the job changed during the training period and argues that …
Riot, unrest and protest on the global stage
Revisiting the Classics: Police: streetcorner politicians: William K. Muir
As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated
Dissension in public evaluations of the police
The way in which police officers deal with the public has a profound and predominantly negative influence on how the police generally are viewed by the public. Tyler's theory of ‘procedural justice’ argues that if officers act with fairness and respect when interacting with the public, they can win legitimacy. This theory is however one sided; the process of interaction involves not only how the police behave, but also how members of the public p…
Police use of deadly force
Shoot to kill: police accountability, firearms and fatal force, by Maurice Punch, Bristol, Policy Press, 2011, 264 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781847424723 Shooting to kill? Policing, firearms a
Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective
This book consists of a series of essays describing and, to a lesser extent, analysing diverse policing arrangements in ten countries: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and Japan, each written by authors with special knowledge of the country in question. As the editors explain, authors were asked to keep to a consistent template that facilitates comparison between essay…
Terrorism and Civil Libertarian Pessimism: Continuing the Debate
Dirk Haubrich, in this issue of Policing & Society, repudiates my article (Waddington, 2005) analyzing civil libertarian arguments that rely on “slippery slopes” on the grounds that the situation p
Slippery Slopes and Civil Libertarian Pessimism
Civil libertarian accounts of the perilous state of civil liberties in modern liberal democracies are partial and unduly pessimistic, suggesting that the inevitable future for civil liberties can only be erosion. The concept of ‘normalisation’ purports to explain this erosion, but whilst examples of ‘normalisation’ are commonplace, contrary examples are equally prevalent but remain unacknowledged. This article proposes an equally plausible optimi…
Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. 25.00 hb)
Journal Article Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. £25.00 hb) Get access P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington The University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh094 Published: 01 November 2004
Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence
Journal Article Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence' Get access P. A. J. Waddington, P. A. J. Waddington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doug Badger, Doug Badger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ray Bull Ray Bull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Marc…
In Proportion: Race, and Police Stop and Search
This article examines the view, expressed authoritatively in the Macpherson report (1999), that racial disproportionality in police stop and search is attributable to officers selectively targeting minority groups. The research on which this article is based replicates Home Office research (Miller and MVA 2000) that profiled the population ‘available’ in public places to be stopped and searched. Using a combination of data sources, this article e…
Orthodoxy and Advocacy in Criminology
In his belated riposte to my critique of the `critical consensus' (P.A.J. Waddington, 1991), David Waddington (1998) seeks to defend the conceptual adequacy and methodological integrity of that position, and especially his own `flashpoints' model (D. Waddington et al., 1987, 1989). In this reply, I demonstrate that not only is his defence unconvincing, but my original critique can be further developed. Conceptually, the notion of `precipitating i…
Swatting police Paramilitarism: A comment on Kraska and Paulsen
Kraska and Paulsen's ethnography of the Pleasantville SWAT team suggests a worrying blurring of the boundary between the police and military. However, this is more apparent than al, since many of the indicators of militarization turn out, on closer inspection, to be insubstantial and in crucial respects SWAT teams retain features consistent with the maintenance of non‐military methods of using force
Discretion, 'Respectability' and Institutional Police Racism
Discrimination; Police Discretion; Police-Race Relations; Police Sub-Culture; Race And Ethnicity; Violence
The Impotence of the Powerful: Recent British Police Weapons Policy
Established social order is often maintained through the inertia of inaction rather than the overt exercise of power by those in dominant positions. However, theorists continue to assume that if actors feel compelled to abstain from action this must arise from the power wielded by others however subtly. This is an unnecessary assumption, since in some circumstances inaction may reflect the impotence of the actor rather than any externally imposed…
Policing South Africa: The view from Boipatong
On 17 June 1992 42 people were massacred in the South African township of Boipatong. The author and two senior London Metropolitan Police officers were invited to conduct an assessment into the policing of the township on the night of the massacre and the criminal investigation conducted in its wake by the South African Police. This article presents some of the conclusions of that inquiry to a wider audience whose interest lies in policing, rathe…
Coercion and Accommodation: Policing Public Order after the Public Order Act
Cet article met en evidence un aspect de l'evolution qui s'est operee depuis quelques annees dans les pratiques de maintien de l'ordre au sein de la police britannique. La facon dont a ete reglee la question des manifestations « anti-poll tax » montre que la recherche de compromis fait desormais partie des strategies adoptees, notamment pour isoler les agitateurs. La coercition est gardee comme solution possible. Mais le fait nouveau qui consiste…
Some Go Backward, Some Go Forward: Police Work in Comparative Perspective
The Case Against Paramilitary Policing Considered
Tony Jefferson's recent book, The Case against Paramilitary Policing (Jefferson 1990) deserves serious consideration not only because it takes issue at length with a brief article written by me, but, more importantly, because it represents a powerful polemic against modern methods of police riot control. However, this polemic fails to convince for several reasons, both analytical and factual. This article will challenge Jefferson's thesis on four…
Guardians’ or ‘Bullies: Perceptions of the Police amongst adolescent black, white and Asian boys
The attitudes of 54 adolescent boys towards the police was explored using the Q technique. This revealed two distinctly different images of the police: either impartial guardians of order or bullies in uniform who exercises power for malign motives. When divided into three racial groups—Black, White and Asian—the main difference to emerge was that whereas both White and Asian groups contained those who viewed the police in either way, the Black s…
Recent Texts on White-Collar Crime: An Overview
Journal Article RECENT TEXTS ON WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: AN OVERVIEW Get access INTRODUCING POLICE WORK. By M. BROGDEN , T. JEFFERSON , and S. WALKLATE . (London: Unwin Hyman. 1988. 199 pp. £25.00 hb., £9.95 pb.) P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington Department of Sociology, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Autumn 1989, Pages 424–425…
Recent Texts on White-Collar Crime: An Overview
Journal Article RECENT TEXTS ON WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: AN OVERVIEW Get access DOING THE BUSINESS: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, THE WORKING CLASS, AND DETECTIVES IN THE EAST END OF LONDON. By DICK HOBBS. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1988. 234 pp. £25.00 hb.) P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington Department of Sociology, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Is…
Towards Paramilitarism? Dilemmas in Policing Civil Disorder
Journal Article TOWARDS PARAMILITARISM? DILEMMAS IN POLICING CIVIL DISORDER Get access P. A. J. WADDINGTON P. A. J. WADDINGTON Lecturer in sociology *University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 37–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047650 Published: 01 January 1987
Mugging as a Moral Panic: A Question of Proportion
The role of the police committee: Constitutional arrangements and social realities
Mugging as a Moral Panic: A Question of Proportion
In Proportion: Race, and Police Stop and Search
This article examines the view, expressed authoritatively in the Macpherson report (1999), that racial disproportionality in police stop and search is attributable to officers selectively targeting minority groups. The research on which this article is based replicates Home Office research (Miller and MVA 2000) that profiled the population ‘available’ in public places to be stopped and searched. Using a combination of data sources, this article e…
Dissension in public evaluations of the police
The way in which police officers deal with the public has a profound and predominantly negative influence on how the police generally are viewed by the public. Tyler's theory of ‘procedural justice’ argues that if officers act with fairness and respect when interacting with the public, they can win legitimacy. This theory is however one sided; the process of interaction involves not only how the police behave, but also how members of the public p…
Coercion and Accommodation: Policing Public Order after the Public Order Act
Cet article met en evidence un aspect de l'evolution qui s'est operee depuis quelques annees dans les pratiques de maintien de l'ordre au sein de la police britannique. La facon dont a ete reglee la question des manifestations « anti-poll tax » montre que la recherche de compromis fait desormais partie des strategies adoptees, notamment pour isoler les agitateurs. La coercition est gardee comme solution possible. Mais le fait nouveau qui consiste…
Guardians’ or ‘Bullies: Perceptions of the Police amongst adolescent black, white and Asian boys
The attitudes of 54 adolescent boys towards the police was explored using the Q technique. This revealed two distinctly different images of the police: either impartial guardians of order or bullies in uniform who exercises power for malign motives. When divided into three racial groups—Black, White and Asian—the main difference to emerge was that whereas both White and Asian groups contained those who viewed the police in either way, the Black s…
The Case Against Paramilitary Policing Considered
Tony Jefferson's recent book, The Case against Paramilitary Policing (Jefferson 1990) deserves serious consideration not only because it takes issue at length with a brief article written by me, but, more importantly, because it represents a powerful polemic against modern methods of police riot control. However, this polemic fails to convince for several reasons, both analytical and factual. This article will challenge Jefferson's thesis on four…
Slippery Slopes and Civil Libertarian Pessimism
Civil libertarian accounts of the perilous state of civil liberties in modern liberal democracies are partial and unduly pessimistic, suggesting that the inevitable future for civil liberties can only be erosion. The concept of ‘normalisation’ purports to explain this erosion, but whilst examples of ‘normalisation’ are commonplace, contrary examples are equally prevalent but remain unacknowledged. This article proposes an equally plausible optimi…
Towards Paramilitarism? Dilemmas in Policing Civil Disorder
Journal Article TOWARDS PARAMILITARISM? DILEMMAS IN POLICING CIVIL DISORDER Get access P. A. J. WADDINGTON P. A. J. WADDINGTON Lecturer in sociology *University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 37–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047650 Published: 01 January 1987
Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence
Journal Article Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence' Get access P. A. J. Waddington, P. A. J. Waddington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doug Badger, Doug Badger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ray Bull Ray Bull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Marc…
Swatting police Paramilitarism: A comment on Kraska and Paulsen
Kraska and Paulsen's ethnography of the Pleasantville SWAT team suggests a worrying blurring of the boundary between the police and military. However, this is more apparent than al, since many of the indicators of militarization turn out, on closer inspection, to be insubstantial and in crucial respects SWAT teams retain features consistent with the maintenance of non‐military methods of using force
The Coup D'État—An Application of a Systems Framework
Revisiting the Classics: Police: streetcorner politicians: William K. Muir
As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated
Police use of deadly force
Shoot to kill: police accountability, firearms and fatal force, by Maurice Punch, Bristol, Policy Press, 2011, 264 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781847424723 Shooting to kill? Policing, firearms a
Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective
This book consists of a series of essays describing and, to a lesser extent, analysing diverse policing arrangements in ten countries: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and Japan, each written by authors with special knowledge of the country in question. As the editors explain, authors were asked to keep to a consistent template that facilitates comparison between essay…
Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. 25.00 hb)
Journal Article Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. £25.00 hb) Get access P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington The University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh094 Published: 01 November 2004
Orthodoxy and Advocacy in Criminology
In his belated riposte to my critique of the `critical consensus' (P.A.J. Waddington, 1991), David Waddington (1998) seeks to defend the conceptual adequacy and methodological integrity of that position, and especially his own `flashpoints' model (D. Waddington et al., 1987, 1989). In this reply, I demonstrate that not only is his defence unconvincing, but my original critique can be further developed. Conceptually, the notion of `precipitating i…
Discretion, 'Respectability' and Institutional Police Racism
Discrimination; Police Discretion; Police-Race Relations; Police Sub-Culture; Race And Ethnicity; Violence
The Impotence of the Powerful: Recent British Police Weapons Policy
Established social order is often maintained through the inertia of inaction rather than the overt exercise of power by those in dominant positions. However, theorists continue to assume that if actors feel compelled to abstain from action this must arise from the power wielded by others however subtly. This is an unnecessary assumption, since in some circumstances inaction may reflect the impotence of the actor rather than any externally imposed…
Some Go Backward, Some Go Forward: Police Work in Comparative Perspective
The Coup D'État—An Application of a Systems Framework
Conservatism, Dogmatism, and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers: A Comment
In their article, 'Conservatism, Dogmatism and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers', Colman and Gorman interpret their own data in a selective and distorting fashion, so as to give a false and damaging impression of police officers' attitudes, especially towards ethnic minorities. Their explanation for these 'findings' are also unsatisfactory: being based upon a weak notion of socialization, and ignoring more obvious alternative explanati…
Indeterminacy in Occupational Recruitment: The Case of Prison Assistant Governors
The view that indeterminate factors affecting occupational recruitment can be ignored in sociological analysis is challenged by the case of the assistant governor in the Prison Service, an occupation in which such factors appear to play a significant part in the recruitment process. Not only do many recruits make spontaneous decisions to apply for the post, without any previous knowledge of the occupation, owing to its social obscurity, but selec…
The role of the police committee: Constitutional arrangements and social realities
Mugging as a Moral Panic: A Question of Proportion
Towards Paramilitarism? Dilemmas in Policing Civil Disorder
Journal Article TOWARDS PARAMILITARISM? DILEMMAS IN POLICING CIVIL DISORDER Get access P. A. J. WADDINGTON P. A. J. WADDINGTON Lecturer in sociology *University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 37–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047650 Published: 01 January 1987
Recent Texts on White-Collar Crime: An Overview
Journal Article RECENT TEXTS ON WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: AN OVERVIEW Get access INTRODUCING POLICE WORK. By M. BROGDEN , T. JEFFERSON , and S. WALKLATE . (London: Unwin Hyman. 1988. 199 pp. £25.00 hb., £9.95 pb.) P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington Department of Sociology, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Autumn 1989, Pages 424–425…
Recent Texts on White-Collar Crime: An Overview
Journal Article RECENT TEXTS ON WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: AN OVERVIEW Get access DOING THE BUSINESS: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, THE WORKING CLASS, AND DETECTIVES IN THE EAST END OF LONDON. By DICK HOBBS. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1988. 234 pp. £25.00 hb.) P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington Department of Sociology, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Is…
Guardians’ or ‘Bullies: Perceptions of the Police amongst adolescent black, white and Asian boys
The attitudes of 54 adolescent boys towards the police was explored using the Q technique. This revealed two distinctly different images of the police: either impartial guardians of order or bullies in uniform who exercises power for malign motives. When divided into three racial groups—Black, White and Asian—the main difference to emerge was that whereas both White and Asian groups contained those who viewed the police in either way, the Black s…
Some Go Backward, Some Go Forward: Police Work in Comparative Perspective
The Case Against Paramilitary Policing Considered
Tony Jefferson's recent book, The Case against Paramilitary Policing (Jefferson 1990) deserves serious consideration not only because it takes issue at length with a brief article written by me, but, more importantly, because it represents a powerful polemic against modern methods of police riot control. However, this polemic fails to convince for several reasons, both analytical and factual. This article will challenge Jefferson's thesis on four…
Policing South Africa: The view from Boipatong
On 17 June 1992 42 people were massacred in the South African township of Boipatong. The author and two senior London Metropolitan Police officers were invited to conduct an assessment into the policing of the township on the night of the massacre and the criminal investigation conducted in its wake by the South African Police. This article presents some of the conclusions of that inquiry to a wider audience whose interest lies in policing, rathe…
Coercion and Accommodation: Policing Public Order after the Public Order Act
Cet article met en evidence un aspect de l'evolution qui s'est operee depuis quelques annees dans les pratiques de maintien de l'ordre au sein de la police britannique. La facon dont a ete reglee la question des manifestations « anti-poll tax » montre que la recherche de compromis fait desormais partie des strategies adoptees, notamment pour isoler les agitateurs. La coercition est gardee comme solution possible. Mais le fait nouveau qui consiste…
The Impotence of the Powerful: Recent British Police Weapons Policy
Established social order is often maintained through the inertia of inaction rather than the overt exercise of power by those in dominant positions. However, theorists continue to assume that if actors feel compelled to abstain from action this must arise from the power wielded by others however subtly. This is an unnecessary assumption, since in some circumstances inaction may reflect the impotence of the actor rather than any externally imposed…
Swatting police Paramilitarism: A comment on Kraska and Paulsen
Kraska and Paulsen's ethnography of the Pleasantville SWAT team suggests a worrying blurring of the boundary between the police and military. However, this is more apparent than al, since many of the indicators of militarization turn out, on closer inspection, to be insubstantial and in crucial respects SWAT teams retain features consistent with the maintenance of non‐military methods of using force
Discretion, 'Respectability' and Institutional Police Racism
Discrimination; Police Discretion; Police-Race Relations; Police Sub-Culture; Race And Ethnicity; Violence
Orthodoxy and Advocacy in Criminology
In his belated riposte to my critique of the `critical consensus' (P.A.J. Waddington, 1991), David Waddington (1998) seeks to defend the conceptual adequacy and methodological integrity of that position, and especially his own `flashpoints' model (D. Waddington et al., 1987, 1989). In this reply, I demonstrate that not only is his defence unconvincing, but my original critique can be further developed. Conceptually, the notion of `precipitating i…
Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. 25.00 hb)
Journal Article Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. By Alison Wakefield (Cullompton: Willan, 2003, 252pp. £25.00 hb) Get access P. A. J. Waddington P. A. J. Waddington The University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh094 Published: 01 November 2004
Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence
Journal Article Appraising The Inclusive Definition Of Workplace 'Violence' Get access P. A. J. Waddington, P. A. J. Waddington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doug Badger, Doug Badger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ray Bull Ray Bull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Marc…
In Proportion: Race, and Police Stop and Search
This article examines the view, expressed authoritatively in the Macpherson report (1999), that racial disproportionality in police stop and search is attributable to officers selectively targeting minority groups. The research on which this article is based replicates Home Office research (Miller and MVA 2000) that profiled the population ‘available’ in public places to be stopped and searched. Using a combination of data sources, this article e…
Slippery Slopes and Civil Libertarian Pessimism
Civil libertarian accounts of the perilous state of civil liberties in modern liberal democracies are partial and unduly pessimistic, suggesting that the inevitable future for civil liberties can only be erosion. The concept of ‘normalisation’ purports to explain this erosion, but whilst examples of ‘normalisation’ are commonplace, contrary examples are equally prevalent but remain unacknowledged. This article proposes an equally plausible optimi…
Terrorism and Civil Libertarian Pessimism: Continuing the Debate
Dirk Haubrich, in this issue of Policing & Society, repudiates my article (Waddington, 2005) analyzing civil libertarian arguments that rely on “slippery slopes” on the grounds that the situation p
Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective
This book consists of a series of essays describing and, to a lesser extent, analysing diverse policing arrangements in ten countries: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and Japan, each written by authors with special knowledge of the country in question. As the editors explain, authors were asked to keep to a consistent template that facilitates comparison between essay…
Police use of deadly force
Shoot to kill: police accountability, firearms and fatal force, by Maurice Punch, Bristol, Policy Press, 2011, 264 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781847424723 Shooting to kill? Policing, firearms a
Dissension in public evaluations of the police
The way in which police officers deal with the public has a profound and predominantly negative influence on how the police generally are viewed by the public. Tyler's theory of ‘procedural justice’ argues that if officers act with fairness and respect when interacting with the public, they can win legitimacy. This theory is however one sided; the process of interaction involves not only how the police behave, but also how members of the public p…
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