Les Johnston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3975957 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Les Johnston |
| PRENOMES | Les |
| SOBRENOME | Johnston |
| ASSINATURA | LES JOHNSTON |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Portsmouth |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian Police
This study investigated the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian Police. Three hundred police officer participants (mean age, 35.4) purposively and randomly selected from three State Police Command areas participated in a six‐week quasi‐experiment in which two existential–phenomenological counselling techniques (focusing on locus of control and self‐efficacy) were used as interventions. Two in…
Nodal wars and network fallacies
In this article we examine three prominent discourses of security governance and suggest, through a critical review of organizational network theory, that the nodal model can offer theoretical, methodological and ethical benefits over alternative ones. These benefits, we argue, are especially pertinent to the analysis of contemporary global insecurities. The article closes by reflecting on two issues raised in the earlier analysis: how an awarene…
From a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ to a ‘dialogue of listening’
We celebrate this, the 10th Anniversary of Police Research and Practice, with a Special Issue that does what this remarkable journal has been doing since its inception. Accordingly, we bring togeth
Police, governance and the Private Finance Initiative
This paper, drawing on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, examines the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) on police in England and Wales with the specific aim of subjecting recent debates about the alleged ‘dispersed’ or ‘distanciated’ nature of state rule to critical analysis. In order to do this we draw on Shearing's (2005) distinction between ‘state anchored’ and ‘corporate-anchored’ pluralism to argue two points: th…
Too many chiefs and not enough chief executives
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has proved to be one of the most controversial policies of the Labour government. Indeed, despite opposition from core government support groups New Labour has still been keen to promote PFI. In some parts of the public sector this had led to substantial and radical projects being pursued. In the police service, however, there have been relatively few projects and most that have emerged have been relatively co…
Professionalizing Counter Fraud Specialists in the UK
Keeping the Family Together’. Police Community Support Officers and the ‘Police Extended Family’ in London
The Police Reform Act (2002) introduced police community support officers (PCSOs) into the service for the first time. PCSOs are uniformed staff who work under the direction and control of the chief officer, and who possess certain limited powers. The introduction of PCSOs has to be considered in the context of debates about security governance, since proponents see the initiative as a means of reconsolidating police sovereignty over policing. Ob…
New directions in policing fraud
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned…
Diversifying Police Recruitment? The Deployment of Police Community Support Officers in London
As part of its drive to extend ‘the police family’, the Police Reform Act 2002 introduced police community support officers (PCSOs) into the service. Although the main function of PCSOs is to enhance public reassurance by providing visible uniformed patrol, it is also anticipated that PSCO recruitment – more demographically diverse than regular recruitment – will make the police more genuinely representative of the diverse communities they police…
From ‘community’ to ‘neighbourhood’ policing
Community policing lacks a coherent definition. Despite this, the term has been used as a rhetorical device to support nostalgic and state‐centric models of policing. These models are increasingly challenged by diversity. Government has responded to this challenge by advocating an ‘extended family’ model of policing. This paper explores the role of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in the ‘extended family’ model. It draws upon research ca…
Governing Security
1. Introduction: Thinking About Security 2. Dimensions of Governance 3. The Punishment Mentality and Coercive Technologies 4. Historical Shifts in Security Governance 5. Corporate Initiatives: The Risk Paradigm 6. Zero Tolerance, Community Policing and Partnership 7. Security Governance in Britain 8. Nodal Governance, Security and Justice
From ‘pluralisation’ to ‘the police extended family’
Crime, Fear and Civil Policing
This paper is concerned with citizen-based security practices, particularly as they relate to crime and to the fear of crime
Snakes & Ladders
Although enjoying a period of renewed government policy interest and favourable research funding, youth studies has recently come under considerable intellectual attack, much of it from within. A common theme is that the major conceptual approach of most British youth research over the past twenty years - the sociological study of youth transitions - is not helpful in approaching 'the youth question'. The paper locates these recent critiques in t…
What Is Vigilantism
Despite popular and official concern about an apparent increase in vigilante activity in the United Kingdom, there has been little serious attempt to conceptualize vigilantism. This paper attempts to establish a criminological definition of vigilantism, so providing a starting point for future empirical analysis of the subject. The paper argues that vigilantism has six necessary features: (i) it involves planning and premeditation by those engagi…
Reiews
Journal Article REIEWS Get access POLICE IN CONTRADICTION: THE EVOLUTION OF THE POLICE FUNCTION IN SOCIETY. By CYRIL D. ROBINSON and RICHARD SCAGLION with J. MICHAEL OLIVERO (Westport, CT: Green-wood Press, 1994. 199 pp. £49.50). Les Johnston Les Johnston University of Teesside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Summer 1995, Pages 459–460, https://doi.or…
Policing plutonium
This paper examines the policing issues arising from nuclear power. After outlining the general security problems associated with the production of nuclear material, the paper considers two issues: site security and the secure movement of material in transit. In the latter case, increased international movement in nuclear material poses new and complex problems concerning the co-ordination of policing and the appropriate jurisdiction of police an…
Privatisation and Protection
The rebirth of private policing
An unseen force
The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP), though the fifth largest civil police force in Britain, has been ignored by academic commentators. Far from being marginal to current concerns, however, it raises issues which are central to contemporary debate. Despite concern about police ‘nationalization’, few have noticed that ‘special police forces’, such as the MDP, already have a national operational jurisdiction. Similarly, despite concern about civil…
The Politics of Private Policing
Controlling Police Work
The issue of control in public bodies has been topical in Britain and has taken varying forms. Government has sought to increase central control by a variety of managerial strategies, whilst critics of government have sought popular accountability through democratic reforms. This debate has been at its most controversial with respect to policing. Despite their shortcomings, models of organisation and control used in the police field serve the use…
Marxism and Capitalist Possession
This paper evaluates marxist attempts to identify a 'class of possessors' under capitalism. It suggests that such attempts are unsuccessful for three reasons. Firstly, marxism wrongly equates the agent of possession with the human individual. Secondly, its conception of the capitalist economy rests upon teleological assumptions. Thirdly, it wrongly asserts the priority of capitalist relations of production over and above their legal conditions of…
What Is Vigilantism
Despite popular and official concern about an apparent increase in vigilante activity in the United Kingdom, there has been little serious attempt to conceptualize vigilantism. This paper attempts to establish a criminological definition of vigilantism, so providing a starting point for future empirical analysis of the subject. The paper argues that vigilantism has six necessary features: (i) it involves planning and premeditation by those engagi…
The Politics of Private Policing
Crime, Fear and Civil Policing
This paper is concerned with citizen-based security practices, particularly as they relate to crime and to the fear of crime
Snakes & Ladders
Although enjoying a period of renewed government policy interest and favourable research funding, youth studies has recently come under considerable intellectual attack, much of it from within. A common theme is that the major conceptual approach of most British youth research over the past twenty years - the sociological study of youth transitions - is not helpful in approaching 'the youth question'. The paper locates these recent critiques in t…
From ‘pluralisation’ to ‘the police extended family’
Keeping the Family Together’. Police Community Support Officers and the ‘Police Extended Family’ in London
The Police Reform Act (2002) introduced police community support officers (PCSOs) into the service for the first time. PCSOs are uniformed staff who work under the direction and control of the chief officer, and who possess certain limited powers. The introduction of PCSOs has to be considered in the context of debates about security governance, since proponents see the initiative as a means of reconsolidating police sovereignty over policing. Ob…
Controlling Police Work
The issue of control in public bodies has been topical in Britain and has taken varying forms. Government has sought to increase central control by a variety of managerial strategies, whilst critics of government have sought popular accountability through democratic reforms. This debate has been at its most controversial with respect to policing. Despite their shortcomings, models of organisation and control used in the police field serve the use…
Nodal wars and network fallacies
In this article we examine three prominent discourses of security governance and suggest, through a critical review of organizational network theory, that the nodal model can offer theoretical, methodological and ethical benefits over alternative ones. These benefits, we argue, are especially pertinent to the analysis of contemporary global insecurities. The article closes by reflecting on two issues raised in the earlier analysis: how an awarene…
Too many chiefs and not enough chief executives
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has proved to be one of the most controversial policies of the Labour government. Indeed, despite opposition from core government support groups New Labour has still been keen to promote PFI. In some parts of the public sector this had led to substantial and radical projects being pursued. In the police service, however, there have been relatively few projects and most that have emerged have been relatively co…
Professionalizing Counter Fraud Specialists in the UK
New directions in policing fraud
From ‘community’ to ‘neighbourhood’ policing
Community policing lacks a coherent definition. Despite this, the term has been used as a rhetorical device to support nostalgic and state‐centric models of policing. These models are increasingly challenged by diversity. Government has responded to this challenge by advocating an ‘extended family’ model of policing. This paper explores the role of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in the ‘extended family’ model. It draws upon research ca…
Police, governance and the Private Finance Initiative
This paper, drawing on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, examines the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) on police in England and Wales with the specific aim of subjecting recent debates about the alleged ‘dispersed’ or ‘distanciated’ nature of state rule to critical analysis. In order to do this we draw on Shearing's (2005) distinction between ‘state anchored’ and ‘corporate-anchored’ pluralism to argue two points: th…
An unseen force
The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP), though the fifth largest civil police force in Britain, has been ignored by academic commentators. Far from being marginal to current concerns, however, it raises issues which are central to contemporary debate. Despite concern about police ‘nationalization’, few have noticed that ‘special police forces’, such as the MDP, already have a national operational jurisdiction. Similarly, despite concern about civil…
Policing plutonium
This paper examines the policing issues arising from nuclear power. After outlining the general security problems associated with the production of nuclear material, the paper considers two issues: site security and the secure movement of material in transit. In the latter case, increased international movement in nuclear material poses new and complex problems concerning the co-ordination of policing and the appropriate jurisdiction of police an…
Marxism and Capitalist Possession
This paper evaluates marxist attempts to identify a 'class of possessors' under capitalism. It suggests that such attempts are unsuccessful for three reasons. Firstly, marxism wrongly equates the agent of possession with the human individual. Secondly, its conception of the capitalist economy rests upon teleological assumptions. Thirdly, it wrongly asserts the priority of capitalist relations of production over and above their legal conditions of…
Controlling Police Work
The issue of control in public bodies has been topical in Britain and has taken varying forms. Government has sought to increase central control by a variety of managerial strategies, whilst critics of government have sought popular accountability through democratic reforms. This debate has been at its most controversial with respect to policing. Despite their shortcomings, models of organisation and control used in the police field serve the use…
The rebirth of private policing
An unseen force
The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP), though the fifth largest civil police force in Britain, has been ignored by academic commentators. Far from being marginal to current concerns, however, it raises issues which are central to contemporary debate. Despite concern about police ‘nationalization’, few have noticed that ‘special police forces’, such as the MDP, already have a national operational jurisdiction. Similarly, despite concern about civil…
The Politics of Private Policing
Privatisation and Protection
Policing plutonium
This paper examines the policing issues arising from nuclear power. After outlining the general security problems associated with the production of nuclear material, the paper considers two issues: site security and the secure movement of material in transit. In the latter case, increased international movement in nuclear material poses new and complex problems concerning the co-ordination of policing and the appropriate jurisdiction of police an…
Reiews
Journal Article REIEWS Get access POLICE IN CONTRADICTION: THE EVOLUTION OF THE POLICE FUNCTION IN SOCIETY. By CYRIL D. ROBINSON and RICHARD SCAGLION with J. MICHAEL OLIVERO (Westport, CT: Green-wood Press, 1994. 199 pp. £49.50). Les Johnston Les Johnston University of Teesside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Summer 1995, Pages 459–460, https://doi.or…
What Is Vigilantism
Despite popular and official concern about an apparent increase in vigilante activity in the United Kingdom, there has been little serious attempt to conceptualize vigilantism. This paper attempts to establish a criminological definition of vigilantism, so providing a starting point for future empirical analysis of the subject. The paper argues that vigilantism has six necessary features: (i) it involves planning and premeditation by those engagi…
Crime, Fear and Civil Policing
This paper is concerned with citizen-based security practices, particularly as they relate to crime and to the fear of crime
Snakes & Ladders
Although enjoying a period of renewed government policy interest and favourable research funding, youth studies has recently come under considerable intellectual attack, much of it from within. A common theme is that the major conceptual approach of most British youth research over the past twenty years - the sociological study of youth transitions - is not helpful in approaching 'the youth question'. The paper locates these recent critiques in t…
Governing Security
1. Introduction: Thinking About Security 2. Dimensions of Governance 3. The Punishment Mentality and Coercive Technologies 4. Historical Shifts in Security Governance 5. Corporate Initiatives: The Risk Paradigm 6. Zero Tolerance, Community Policing and Partnership 7. Security Governance in Britain 8. Nodal Governance, Security and Justice
From ‘pluralisation’ to ‘the police extended family’
From ‘community’ to ‘neighbourhood’ policing
Community policing lacks a coherent definition. Despite this, the term has been used as a rhetorical device to support nostalgic and state‐centric models of policing. These models are increasingly challenged by diversity. Government has responded to this challenge by advocating an ‘extended family’ model of policing. This paper explores the role of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in the ‘extended family’ model. It draws upon research ca…
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned…
Diversifying Police Recruitment? The Deployment of Police Community Support Officers in London
As part of its drive to extend ‘the police family’, the Police Reform Act 2002 introduced police community support officers (PCSOs) into the service. Although the main function of PCSOs is to enhance public reassurance by providing visible uniformed patrol, it is also anticipated that PSCO recruitment – more demographically diverse than regular recruitment – will make the police more genuinely representative of the diverse communities they police…
Too many chiefs and not enough chief executives
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has proved to be one of the most controversial policies of the Labour government. Indeed, despite opposition from core government support groups New Labour has still been keen to promote PFI. In some parts of the public sector this had led to substantial and radical projects being pursued. In the police service, however, there have been relatively few projects and most that have emerged have been relatively co…
Professionalizing Counter Fraud Specialists in the UK
Keeping the Family Together’. Police Community Support Officers and the ‘Police Extended Family’ in London
The Police Reform Act (2002) introduced police community support officers (PCSOs) into the service for the first time. PCSOs are uniformed staff who work under the direction and control of the chief officer, and who possess certain limited powers. The introduction of PCSOs has to be considered in the context of debates about security governance, since proponents see the initiative as a means of reconsolidating police sovereignty over policing. Ob…
New directions in policing fraud
Police, governance and the Private Finance Initiative
This paper, drawing on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, examines the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) on police in England and Wales with the specific aim of subjecting recent debates about the alleged ‘dispersed’ or ‘distanciated’ nature of state rule to critical analysis. In order to do this we draw on Shearing's (2005) distinction between ‘state anchored’ and ‘corporate-anchored’ pluralism to argue two points: th…
From a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ to a ‘dialogue of listening’
We celebrate this, the 10th Anniversary of Police Research and Practice, with a Special Issue that does what this remarkable journal has been doing since its inception. Accordingly, we bring togeth
Nodal wars and network fallacies
In this article we examine three prominent discourses of security governance and suggest, through a critical review of organizational network theory, that the nodal model can offer theoretical, methodological and ethical benefits over alternative ones. These benefits, we argue, are especially pertinent to the analysis of contemporary global insecurities. The article closes by reflecting on two issues raised in the earlier analysis: how an awarene…
The moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian Police
This study investigated the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian Police. Three hundred police officer participants (mean age, 35.4) purposively and randomly selected from three State Police Command areas participated in a six‐week quasi‐experiment in which two existential–phenomenological counselling techniques (focusing on locus of control and self‐efficacy) were used as interventions. Two in…
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