The Modern Making of Stop and Search
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kath Murray (0000-0003-1941-9525, Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 588-605 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azx030 |
| OpenAlex | W2713251341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article investigates the development of modern stop and search powers in post-war Britain—namely, the legal rules that allow police officers to stop and search a person based on reasonable suspicion, and as an adjunct to a specific offence. The article traces the rise of a preventative outlook premised on police power, rather than police presence, and demonstrates how, against a backdrop of political consensus and stability, the preventative principle gradually acquired the status of taken-for-granted knowledge, albeit uneasily at first. The analysis shows how the balance between crime control and individual freedom quietly shifted in favour of the state, in a move that would carry significant implications for policing in the decades ahead. The article concludes that whilst noisy politics and policies rightly attract academic attention, it is arguably in the quieter periods that more deep-seated and enduring transformations are likely to take place.
Balance (ability) · Control (management) · Economics · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology
Governance Stories
The Culture of Control
The Politics of the Police
A Theory of Justice
Policing, Ethics and Human Rights
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
The Culture of Control
Beyond Reductionism
Precautionary tales
What is to be done with public criminology
Weeding the garden
The formation of suspicions
Under-regulated and unaccountable? Explaining variation in stop and search rates in Scotland, England and Wales
The London Drug Scene and the Making of Drug Policy, 1965-73
Understanding Crime Prevention
Reasonable suspicion
Crime and Criminal Justice since 1945
Disproportionate and Discriminatory
The Culture of High Crime Societies
Police and the Prevention of Crime
Policing in Cool and Hot Climates
Fall of the ‘Platonic Guardians’
Youth Crime and Preventive Policing in Post-War Scotland (c.1945-71)
Regulating stop and search
Crime and Criminal Justice Since 1945
Stop and search
At risk of prevention
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |