Bill Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2298-5595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using theory from the Global South
Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how they might be used to ground a more relevant and effective approach to preventing urban violence in South Africa than northern ideas about social cohesion and collective efficacy current in dominant pol…
Colonial Confessions
This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern ways of thinking and being. The aim is to encourage other criminologists from a similar background to reflect on their histories and the impact of their work in the present, and to be open to ideas from…
Criminologies of the Global South
Power, politics and the police
This article examines the relationship between politicians and the police in the days before the shooting by members of the South African Police Service of 34 striking mineworkers at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on 16 August 2012. Drawing on evidence presented to the official inquiry into events at Marikana, it argues that political influence over the police may be exercised most effectively when it is least obvious. Instead of issu…
Losing the Race
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it …
A Violent Legacy
Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21 st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16 th August 2012. The parallels between the two 'massacres' are easy to overstate; but both involved the use of lethal violence by the police against people taking part in insurrectionary action. Drawing on
Losing the Race thinking psychosocially about racially motivated crime
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it …
Globalising the Local
A framework for analysing policy transfer developed by David Dolowitz and David Marsh has begun to attract the attention of criminologists interested in understanding how crime policies travel. This article uses this framework to assist in tracing the genealogy of a style of local, geographically responsible `sector' policing which is currently being implemented by the South African Police Service. After locating sector policing as a distinctive …
Getting the message? ‘New’ Labour and the criminalization of ‘hate’
Hate crimes, it has been said, are ‘message’ crimes to which society needs to respond using the most powerful and unambiguous means of communication at its disposal, the criminal law. Using empirical data collected in the course of research conducted by the authors on racially motivated violence and harassment in North Staffordshire, this article sets out to interpret the messages about hate crime sent to perpetrators, and people from their local…
Development, crime prevention and social policy in post-apartheid South Africa
Crime has gained an extraordinary pre-eminence among the social problems of our age, and preventing it has become a priority for many governments around the world. This has led to some significant normative disagreements about the relationship between crime prevention and social policy. Different bodies of work warn against both the ‘criminalization of social policy’ and the ‘socialization of crime prevention’. The more integrated notion of ‘soci…
Zero tolerance
(2000). Zero tolerance: The hard edge of community policing. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 73-78
Laying Down the Law
Sector policing and public accountability
[Traditional British policing is relatively low on numbers, low on power and high on accountability;.....it is undertaken with public consent which does not mean acquiescence but a broad tolerance indicating a satisfaction with the helping and enforcement roles of policing.” (Joint Consultative Committee 1990:4) Perhaps it is time to return to basics and to reassign every constable to a geographical area ‐ making them all ‘community constables’. …
Criminologies of the Global South
A Violent Legacy
Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21 st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16 th August 2012. The parallels between the two 'massacres' are easy to overstate; but both involved the use of lethal violence by the police against people taking part in insurrectionary action. Drawing on
Globalising the Local
A framework for analysing policy transfer developed by David Dolowitz and David Marsh has begun to attract the attention of criminologists interested in understanding how crime policies travel. This article uses this framework to assist in tracing the genealogy of a style of local, geographically responsible `sector' policing which is currently being implemented by the South African Police Service. After locating sector policing as a distinctive …
Getting the message? ‘New’ Labour and the criminalization of ‘hate’
Hate crimes, it has been said, are ‘message’ crimes to which society needs to respond using the most powerful and unambiguous means of communication at its disposal, the criminal law. Using empirical data collected in the course of research conducted by the authors on racially motivated violence and harassment in North Staffordshire, this article sets out to interpret the messages about hate crime sent to perpetrators, and people from their local…
Power, politics and the police
This article examines the relationship between politicians and the police in the days before the shooting by members of the South African Police Service of 34 striking mineworkers at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on 16 August 2012. Drawing on evidence presented to the official inquiry into events at Marikana, it argues that political influence over the police may be exercised most effectively when it is least obvious. Instead of issu…
Development, crime prevention and social policy in post-apartheid South Africa
Crime has gained an extraordinary pre-eminence among the social problems of our age, and preventing it has become a priority for many governments around the world. This has led to some significant normative disagreements about the relationship between crime prevention and social policy. Different bodies of work warn against both the ‘criminalization of social policy’ and the ‘socialization of crime prevention’. The more integrated notion of ‘soci…
Zero tolerance
(2000). Zero tolerance: The hard edge of community policing. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 73-78
Laying Down the Law
Sector policing and public accountability
[Traditional British policing is relatively low on numbers, low on power and high on accountability;.....it is undertaken with public consent which does not mean acquiescence but a broad tolerance indicating a satisfaction with the helping and enforcement roles of policing.” (Joint Consultative Committee 1990:4) Perhaps it is time to return to basics and to reassign every constable to a geographical area ‐ making them all ‘community constables’. …
Using theory from the Global South
Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how they might be used to ground a more relevant and effective approach to preventing urban violence in South Africa than northern ideas about social cohesion and collective efficacy current in dominant pol…
Sector policing and public accountability
[Traditional British policing is relatively low on numbers, low on power and high on accountability;.....it is undertaken with public consent which does not mean acquiescence but a broad tolerance indicating a satisfaction with the helping and enforcement roles of policing.” (Joint Consultative Committee 1990:4) Perhaps it is time to return to basics and to reassign every constable to a geographical area ‐ making them all ‘community constables’. …
Laying Down the Law
Zero tolerance
(2000). Zero tolerance: The hard edge of community policing. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 73-78
Getting the message? ‘New’ Labour and the criminalization of ‘hate’
Hate crimes, it has been said, are ‘message’ crimes to which society needs to respond using the most powerful and unambiguous means of communication at its disposal, the criminal law. Using empirical data collected in the course of research conducted by the authors on racially motivated violence and harassment in North Staffordshire, this article sets out to interpret the messages about hate crime sent to perpetrators, and people from their local…
Development, crime prevention and social policy in post-apartheid South Africa
Crime has gained an extraordinary pre-eminence among the social problems of our age, and preventing it has become a priority for many governments around the world. This has led to some significant normative disagreements about the relationship between crime prevention and social policy. Different bodies of work warn against both the ‘criminalization of social policy’ and the ‘socialization of crime prevention’. The more integrated notion of ‘soci…
Globalising the Local
A framework for analysing policy transfer developed by David Dolowitz and David Marsh has begun to attract the attention of criminologists interested in understanding how crime policies travel. This article uses this framework to assist in tracing the genealogy of a style of local, geographically responsible `sector' policing which is currently being implemented by the South African Police Service. After locating sector policing as a distinctive …
Losing the Race thinking psychosocially about racially motivated crime
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it …
A Violent Legacy
Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21 st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16 th August 2012. The parallels between the two 'massacres' are easy to overstate; but both involved the use of lethal violence by the police against people taking part in insurrectionary action. Drawing on
Losing the Race
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it …
Criminologies of the Global South
Power, politics and the police
This article examines the relationship between politicians and the police in the days before the shooting by members of the South African Police Service of 34 striking mineworkers at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on 16 August 2012. Drawing on evidence presented to the official inquiry into events at Marikana, it argues that political influence over the police may be exercised most effectively when it is least obvious. Instead of issu…
Using theory from the Global South
Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how they might be used to ground a more relevant and effective approach to preventing urban violence in South Africa than northern ideas about social cohesion and collective efficacy current in dominant pol…
Colonial Confessions
This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern ways of thinking and being. The aim is to encourage other criminologists from a similar background to reflect on their histories and the impact of their work in the present, and to be open to ideas from…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Community policing (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)