BEN BOWLING
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | BEN BOWLING |
| GIVEN NAMES | BEN |
| FAMILY NAME | BOWLING |
| SIGNATURE | BEN BOWLING |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9162-8654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Automated policing
This paper examines the impact of body-worn video (BWV) on the police craft skills of close observation, note-taking, investigative analysis, report-writing and preparation of evidence for the courts. It explains how the technology functions and explores its surveillant, investigative, probative and regulatory applications. The evidence shows that policing tasks are being transformed by BWV cameras and analytics such as facial recognition. The pa…
Racism, Immigration, and Policing
This chapter explores the ways in which racism shapes immigration policing. Focusing on the developing roles of constables and immigration officers in immigration policing in the UK, it contributes to a wider investigation of the emergence of a ‘crimmigration control system’ arising from the convergence of criminal and immigration law. Drawing on Weber and Bowling’s (2004) ‘sites of enforcement’ model, the chapter examines the research evidence o…
A really hostile environment’
This article examines institutional practices designed to control criminalized migrants in the UK and advances three arguments. First, these practices have evolved, since the early 1970s, into a bespoke ‘crimmigration control system’ distinct from the domestic criminal justice system. Second, this system is directed exclusively at efficient exclusion and control; through a process of adiaphorization, moral objections to the creation of a ‘really …
Robert Reiner
This article charts the career of Robert Reiner, the pioneering British police researcher and prolific writer on mass media, popular culture, political economy, law and order, crime and justice. It surveys his life and work focusing on his contribution to the sociology of policing. The article examines Reiner’s empirical and theoretical studies of policing and the ways in which his work has shaped the discipline. The Politics of the Police, publi…
Global Policing
Stop and search in global context
Police, Stop! Halte! Igazoltatas! Thamba! Tomare! Pare! Alto! Halt! Arretez-vous immediatement! The command – issued verbally or in the form of a road sign, a roadblock, or a flashing light on the
Stop and search in global context
Reflecting on the evidence presented in this collection, this overview explores the purposes for which stop and search powers are deployed, whether their use can be described as effective and whether the infringements of liberty and privacy that stop and search entails can be justified. We conclude by considering the impact of stop and search on citizenship and mobility and examining questions of fairness, legitimacy and justice
Guns, crime and social order in the West Indies
This article examines guns, crime and social order in the West Indies. Set in the context of the region's colonial history, contemporary geopolitics and the growing availability of small arms, the article analyses the extent and nature of gun homicide and related phenomena in various locations across the English-speaking Caribbean. It explores some explanations for the disturbing growth in violent death and injury mainly caused by guns, focusing …
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
Disproportionate and Discriminatory
Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowered to stop and search citizens under a wide range of legislative acts and the power is employed daily across Britain. Far from laying the debate to rest, the Lawrence Inquiry prompted new research studies and fresh theories to explain the official st…
Violent Crime
Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. They have also observed that the risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. In societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations, some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups. This exceptiona…
The rise and fall of New York murder
The striking reduction in homicide in New York City between 1991 and 1997 has been claimed as a great success for a 'new policing tactic dubbed 'zero tolerance' - the aggressive enforcement of minor offences. The evidence that changes in policing made 'all the difference' is largely circumstantial, however, Homicide rates were at an all-time high in 1990-91 and had begun to decline before any radical changes in policing policy were instituted. Th…
Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Measuring ‘Race’ Differences in Delinquency
Journal Article CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN MEASURING ‘RACE’ DIFFERENCES IN DELINQUENCY: A Reply To Marianne Junger Get access BEN BOWLING BEN BOWLING *Department of Sociology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 4, Autumn 1990, Pages 483–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048052 Published: 01 October 19…
Disproportionate and Discriminatory
Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowered to stop and search citizens under a wide range of legislative acts and the power is employed daily across Britain. Far from laying the debate to rest, the Lawrence Inquiry prompted new research studies and fresh theories to explain the official st…
A really hostile environment’
This article examines institutional practices designed to control criminalized migrants in the UK and advances three arguments. First, these practices have evolved, since the early 1970s, into a bespoke ‘crimmigration control system’ distinct from the domestic criminal justice system. Second, this system is directed exclusively at efficient exclusion and control; through a process of adiaphorization, moral objections to the creation of a ‘really …
Stop and search in global context
Reflecting on the evidence presented in this collection, this overview explores the purposes for which stop and search powers are deployed, whether their use can be described as effective and whether the infringements of liberty and privacy that stop and search entails can be justified. We conclude by considering the impact of stop and search on citizenship and mobility and examining questions of fairness, legitimacy and justice
The rise and fall of New York murder
The striking reduction in homicide in New York City between 1991 and 1997 has been claimed as a great success for a 'new policing tactic dubbed 'zero tolerance' - the aggressive enforcement of minor offences. The evidence that changes in policing made 'all the difference' is largely circumstantial, however, Homicide rates were at an all-time high in 1990-91 and had begun to decline before any radical changes in policing policy were instituted. Th…
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
Stop and search in global context
Police, Stop! Halte! Igazoltatas! Thamba! Tomare! Pare! Alto! Halt! Arretez-vous immediatement! The command – issued verbally or in the form of a road sign, a roadblock, or a flashing light on the
Guns, crime and social order in the West Indies
This article examines guns, crime and social order in the West Indies. Set in the context of the region's colonial history, contemporary geopolitics and the growing availability of small arms, the article analyses the extent and nature of gun homicide and related phenomena in various locations across the English-speaking Caribbean. It explores some explanations for the disturbing growth in violent death and injury mainly caused by guns, focusing …
Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Measuring ‘Race’ Differences in Delinquency
Journal Article CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN MEASURING ‘RACE’ DIFFERENCES IN DELINQUENCY: A Reply To Marianne Junger Get access BEN BOWLING BEN BOWLING *Department of Sociology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 4, Autumn 1990, Pages 483–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048052 Published: 01 October 19…
Automated policing
This paper examines the impact of body-worn video (BWV) on the police craft skills of close observation, note-taking, investigative analysis, report-writing and preparation of evidence for the courts. It explains how the technology functions and explores its surveillant, investigative, probative and regulatory applications. The evidence shows that policing tasks are being transformed by BWV cameras and analytics such as facial recognition. The pa…
Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Measuring ‘Race’ Differences in Delinquency
Journal Article CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN MEASURING ‘RACE’ DIFFERENCES IN DELINQUENCY: A Reply To Marianne Junger Get access BEN BOWLING BEN BOWLING *Department of Sociology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 4, Autumn 1990, Pages 483–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048052 Published: 01 October 19…
The rise and fall of New York murder
The striking reduction in homicide in New York City between 1991 and 1997 has been claimed as a great success for a 'new policing tactic dubbed 'zero tolerance' - the aggressive enforcement of minor offences. The evidence that changes in policing made 'all the difference' is largely circumstantial, however, Homicide rates were at an all-time high in 1990-91 and had begun to decline before any radical changes in policing policy were instituted. Th…
Violent Crime
Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. They have also observed that the risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. In societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations, some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups. This exceptiona…
Disproportionate and Discriminatory
Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowered to stop and search citizens under a wide range of legislative acts and the power is employed daily across Britain. Far from laying the debate to rest, the Lawrence Inquiry prompted new research studies and fresh theories to explain the official st…
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
Guns, crime and social order in the West Indies
This article examines guns, crime and social order in the West Indies. Set in the context of the region's colonial history, contemporary geopolitics and the growing availability of small arms, the article analyses the extent and nature of gun homicide and related phenomena in various locations across the English-speaking Caribbean. It explores some explanations for the disturbing growth in violent death and injury mainly caused by guns, focusing …
Stop and search in global context
Police, Stop! Halte! Igazoltatas! Thamba! Tomare! Pare! Alto! Halt! Arretez-vous immediatement! The command – issued verbally or in the form of a road sign, a roadblock, or a flashing light on the
Stop and search in global context
Reflecting on the evidence presented in this collection, this overview explores the purposes for which stop and search powers are deployed, whether their use can be described as effective and whether the infringements of liberty and privacy that stop and search entails can be justified. We conclude by considering the impact of stop and search on citizenship and mobility and examining questions of fairness, legitimacy and justice
Global Policing
Robert Reiner
This article charts the career of Robert Reiner, the pioneering British police researcher and prolific writer on mass media, popular culture, political economy, law and order, crime and justice. It surveys his life and work focusing on his contribution to the sociology of policing. The article examines Reiner’s empirical and theoretical studies of policing and the ways in which his work has shaped the discipline. The Politics of the Police, publi…
Racism, Immigration, and Policing
This chapter explores the ways in which racism shapes immigration policing. Focusing on the developing roles of constables and immigration officers in immigration policing in the UK, it contributes to a wider investigation of the emergence of a ‘crimmigration control system’ arising from the convergence of criminal and immigration law. Drawing on Weber and Bowling’s (2004) ‘sites of enforcement’ model, the chapter examines the research evidence o…
A really hostile environment’
This article examines institutional practices designed to control criminalized migrants in the UK and advances three arguments. First, these practices have evolved, since the early 1970s, into a bespoke ‘crimmigration control system’ distinct from the domestic criminal justice system. Second, this system is directed exclusively at efficient exclusion and control; through a process of adiaphorization, moral objections to the creation of a ‘really …
Automated policing
This paper examines the impact of body-worn video (BWV) on the police craft skills of close observation, note-taking, investigative analysis, report-writing and preparation of evidence for the courts. It explains how the technology functions and explores its surveillant, investigative, probative and regulatory applications. The evidence shows that policing tasks are being transformed by BWV cameras and analytics such as facial recognition. The pa…
Political science (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works)