Geoff Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2458-5184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Working Class Youth Culture
Gone fishing
This article analyses the operation of police vehicle stop checks in England and Wales. In contrast to other common police powers, vehicle checks are remarkably under-regulated and have received little academic attention, but they are regularly used coercive powers supported by criminal sanction. Based upon a 6-year ethnographic study, including observations of 205 vehicle stops, this article sets out how stop checks are used as part of routine p…
New Agenda for Football Crowd Management
A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management
Policy, Practicalities, and Pace s. 24
PACE, as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, establishes a complex framework of factors that police officers must consider during arrest decision making. Officers must possess a reason to arrest, it must be necessary to arrest for that reason, and they must give at least a ‘cursory consideration’ to alternatives. Based on a four‐year ethnographic study of frontline officers from two forces in Northern England, we argue tha…
Legal Responses to Football Hooliganism in Europe
This book brings together a number of perspectives on how different European states have responded to the phenomenon of football crowd disorder and violence, or “hooliganism”. It applies a comparative
Learning and practicing police craft
Purpose The authors consider current policy debates in the UK about the professionalisation of the police to respond to changing patterns of crime and, specifically, the suggestion that officers be educated to degree level. Drawing on the ethnographic evidence, the purpose of this paper is to focus attention on how officers learn, and continue to develop the applied, that is the craft aspects of the work of uniformed constables. Design/methodolog…
An ethnography of English football fans
"An ethnography of English football fans" published on by Manchester University Press.
Keeping the Peace
This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and absence of collective conflict during football (soccer) crowd events. It provides an analysis of data gathered during longitudinal ethnographic study of fans of Cardiff City Football Club-a group of supporters with a notorious history of involvement in 'hooliganism' within the Engl…
The hoolifan
Popular accounts of 'football hooliganism' have identified the phenomenon as being harmful and damaging for both the sport of football and the interests of spectators who attend matches. As a result, it has been generally assumed that 'non-hooligan' supporters disapprove of their hooligan counterparts and their activities. However, this one-sided account does not recognize the views of a significant proportion of match-going fans who consistently…
On the Lash’ – revisiting the effectiveness of alcohol controls at football matches
It has long been assumed that the problem of ‘football hooliganism’ is linked to levels of alcohol consumption by crowds of football supporters. As a result a number of laws and policing strategies have been developed that aim to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed by fans. This article is based primarily upon a 15-year ethnography of English football supporters and the effectiveness of social control policies upon them, and supported by interv…
Policing Serious Crime in China
Journal Article Policing Serious Crime in China: From ‘Strike Hard’ to ‘Kill Fewer’. By Susan Trevaskes (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, xiii + 223pp. £71.25 hb) Get access POLICING SERIOUS CRIME IN CHINA: FROM ‘STRIKE HARD’ TO ‘KILL FEWER’. By Susan Trevaskes (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, xiii + 223pp. £71.25 hb) Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Goldsmiths University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The researcher as hooligan
This article focuses on the problems faced by researchers carrying out participant observation in fields where the committal of criminal offences is the norm. Can participation in criminal activity by a researcher be justified on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the distortion of the field? Alternatively, can the difficulties in gaining and maintaining access in such spheres excuse such conduct? The article considers the current guidan…
A different kind of ethics
Drawing on four `tales from the field', provided one each by the authors, this article examines the ethical and moral dilemmas ethnographers can face during their research. In particular, we address two key questions. First, what does being ethical actually involve? Second, is there a moral duty owed by researchers and, if so, to whom is this duty owed? The article reviews current debates over ethics in ethnographic research, specifically the res…
Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnography
Football Banning Orders, Proportionality, and Public Order Policing
This article provides a critical analysis of the UK legislation on football banning orders. The historical development of this legislation is outlined and concerns are raised about its impact upon civil liberties and human rights, particularly with respect to Section 14B of the Football (Disorder) Act 2000. The article then outlines a body of research on crowd psychology, public order policing and football ‘disorder’ that questions the determinin…
Trafficking Cocaine
Journal Article Trafficking Cocaine: Colombian Drug Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. By Damián Zaitch (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 335Pp. £17.00 Pb) Get access Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 4, July 2004, Pages 629–631, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh064 Published…
Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China
Journal Article Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China Get access Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 March 2002, Pages 235–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.2.235 Published: 01 March 2002
Getting Public Law Back into a Critical Condition
This article explores a series of issues that arise in relation to the methodology of conducting a critique of legal ideologies. It addresses the attempt by the Sheffield School of public law to formulate and apply an 'immanent' model of critique that builds upon the position developed by the Frankfurt School of critical social theory. We address difficulties that arise with the Sheffield School's interpretation of this model of critique, not lea…
Working Class Youth Culture
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
A different kind of ethics
Drawing on four `tales from the field', provided one each by the authors, this article examines the ethical and moral dilemmas ethnographers can face during their research. In particular, we address two key questions. First, what does being ethical actually involve? Second, is there a moral duty owed by researchers and, if so, to whom is this duty owed? The article reviews current debates over ethics in ethnographic research, specifically the res…
Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnography
The researcher as hooligan
This article focuses on the problems faced by researchers carrying out participant observation in fields where the committal of criminal offences is the norm. Can participation in criminal activity by a researcher be justified on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the distortion of the field? Alternatively, can the difficulties in gaining and maintaining access in such spheres excuse such conduct? The article considers the current guidan…
On the Lash’ – revisiting the effectiveness of alcohol controls at football matches
It has long been assumed that the problem of ‘football hooliganism’ is linked to levels of alcohol consumption by crowds of football supporters. As a result a number of laws and policing strategies have been developed that aim to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed by fans. This article is based primarily upon a 15-year ethnography of English football supporters and the effectiveness of social control policies upon them, and supported by interv…
The hoolifan
Popular accounts of 'football hooliganism' have identified the phenomenon as being harmful and damaging for both the sport of football and the interests of spectators who attend matches. As a result, it has been generally assumed that 'non-hooligan' supporters disapprove of their hooligan counterparts and their activities. However, this one-sided account does not recognize the views of a significant proportion of match-going fans who consistently…
Keeping the Peace
This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and absence of collective conflict during football (soccer) crowd events. It provides an analysis of data gathered during longitudinal ethnographic study of fans of Cardiff City Football Club-a group of supporters with a notorious history of involvement in 'hooliganism' within the Engl…
Gone fishing
This article analyses the operation of police vehicle stop checks in England and Wales. In contrast to other common police powers, vehicle checks are remarkably under-regulated and have received little academic attention, but they are regularly used coercive powers supported by criminal sanction. Based upon a 6-year ethnographic study, including observations of 205 vehicle stops, this article sets out how stop checks are used as part of routine p…
Learning and practicing police craft
Purpose The authors consider current policy debates in the UK about the professionalisation of the police to respond to changing patterns of crime and, specifically, the suggestion that officers be educated to degree level. Drawing on the ethnographic evidence, the purpose of this paper is to focus attention on how officers learn, and continue to develop the applied, that is the craft aspects of the work of uniformed constables. Design/methodolog…
Policy, Practicalities, and Pace s. 24
PACE, as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, establishes a complex framework of factors that police officers must consider during arrest decision making. Officers must possess a reason to arrest, it must be necessary to arrest for that reason, and they must give at least a ‘cursory consideration’ to alternatives. Based on a four‐year ethnographic study of frontline officers from two forces in Northern England, we argue tha…
Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China
Journal Article Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China Get access Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 March 2002, Pages 235–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.2.235 Published: 01 March 2002
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
Working Class Youth Culture
Getting Public Law Back into a Critical Condition
This article explores a series of issues that arise in relation to the methodology of conducting a critique of legal ideologies. It addresses the attempt by the Sheffield School of public law to formulate and apply an 'immanent' model of critique that builds upon the position developed by the Frankfurt School of critical social theory. We address difficulties that arise with the Sheffield School's interpretation of this model of critique, not lea…
Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China
Journal Article Introduction. Crime and Criminology in China Get access Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 March 2002, Pages 235–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.2.235 Published: 01 March 2002
Trafficking Cocaine
Journal Article Trafficking Cocaine: Colombian Drug Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. By Damián Zaitch (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 335Pp. £17.00 Pb) Get access Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 4, July 2004, Pages 629–631, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh064 Published…
Football Banning Orders, Proportionality, and Public Order Policing
This article provides a critical analysis of the UK legislation on football banning orders. The historical development of this legislation is outlined and concerns are raised about its impact upon civil liberties and human rights, particularly with respect to Section 14B of the Football (Disorder) Act 2000. The article then outlines a body of research on crowd psychology, public order policing and football ‘disorder’ that questions the determinin…
A different kind of ethics
Drawing on four `tales from the field', provided one each by the authors, this article examines the ethical and moral dilemmas ethnographers can face during their research. In particular, we address two key questions. First, what does being ethical actually involve? Second, is there a moral duty owed by researchers and, if so, to whom is this duty owed? The article reviews current debates over ethics in ethnographic research, specifically the res…
Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnography
The researcher as hooligan
This article focuses on the problems faced by researchers carrying out participant observation in fields where the committal of criminal offences is the norm. Can participation in criminal activity by a researcher be justified on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the distortion of the field? Alternatively, can the difficulties in gaining and maintaining access in such spheres excuse such conduct? The article considers the current guidan…
On the Lash’ – revisiting the effectiveness of alcohol controls at football matches
It has long been assumed that the problem of ‘football hooliganism’ is linked to levels of alcohol consumption by crowds of football supporters. As a result a number of laws and policing strategies have been developed that aim to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed by fans. This article is based primarily upon a 15-year ethnography of English football supporters and the effectiveness of social control policies upon them, and supported by interv…
Policing Serious Crime in China
Journal Article Policing Serious Crime in China: From ‘Strike Hard’ to ‘Kill Fewer’. By Susan Trevaskes (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, xiii + 223pp. £71.25 hb) Get access POLICING SERIOUS CRIME IN CHINA: FROM ‘STRIKE HARD’ TO ‘KILL FEWER’. By Susan Trevaskes (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, xiii + 223pp. £71.25 hb) Geoffrey Pearson Geoffrey Pearson Goldsmiths University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
An ethnography of English football fans
"An ethnography of English football fans" published on by Manchester University Press.
Keeping the Peace
This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and absence of collective conflict during football (soccer) crowd events. It provides an analysis of data gathered during longitudinal ethnographic study of fans of Cardiff City Football Club-a group of supporters with a notorious history of involvement in 'hooliganism' within the Engl…
The hoolifan
Popular accounts of 'football hooliganism' have identified the phenomenon as being harmful and damaging for both the sport of football and the interests of spectators who attend matches. As a result, it has been generally assumed that 'non-hooligan' supporters disapprove of their hooligan counterparts and their activities. However, this one-sided account does not recognize the views of a significant proportion of match-going fans who consistently…
Legal Responses to Football Hooliganism in Europe
This book brings together a number of perspectives on how different European states have responded to the phenomenon of football crowd disorder and violence, or “hooliganism”. It applies a comparative
Learning and practicing police craft
Purpose The authors consider current policy debates in the UK about the professionalisation of the police to respond to changing patterns of crime and, specifically, the suggestion that officers be educated to degree level. Drawing on the ethnographic evidence, the purpose of this paper is to focus attention on how officers learn, and continue to develop the applied, that is the craft aspects of the work of uniformed constables. Design/methodolog…
Policy, Practicalities, and Pace s. 24
PACE, as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, establishes a complex framework of factors that police officers must consider during arrest decision making. Officers must possess a reason to arrest, it must be necessary to arrest for that reason, and they must give at least a ‘cursory consideration’ to alternatives. Based on a four‐year ethnographic study of frontline officers from two forces in Northern England, we argue tha…
A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management
Working Class Youth Culture
Gone fishing
This article analyses the operation of police vehicle stop checks in England and Wales. In contrast to other common police powers, vehicle checks are remarkably under-regulated and have received little academic attention, but they are regularly used coercive powers supported by criminal sanction. Based upon a 6-year ethnographic study, including observations of 205 vehicle stops, this article sets out how stop checks are used as part of routine p…
New Agenda for Football Crowd Management
Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Football (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (6 works)