The geographies of policing

Yarwood, Richard

doi:10.1177/0309132507079500

Cited by 79 publications

(61 citation statements)

References 63 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…While it is instructive to understand how search 'happens' (as above) and build sensitive geographical knowledges around it with respect to policing cultures, resources and 'real-time' spaces, such foci should also do more than animate particular policing geographies (cf.. Fyfe, 1991;Herbert, 1997;Yarwood, 2007). We need more specifically to understand the intersections of technical/personal/professional (spatial) Figure 4.…”

Section: Geographies Of Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missing geographies

Parr

Fyfe

2012

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper argues that human geography has neglected the issue of 'missing people'. Following an introduction, the paper uses four thematics, 'mapping, searching, feeling and moving', in order to explore a range of responses to missing absence and missing experience. It argues that attention to the voices of returned adult missing people would help establish new emotional geographies of embodied absence which would complement, and in places challenge, 'left behind' knowledges of absence. It is also argued that 'peopling' missing research would enable sensitive reconstructions of missing mobilities which both (1) challenge operational categorizations and cartographies of missing people as disembodied units, and (2) contribute to conceptual reassessments of disruptive human mobilities.

show abstract

Section: Geographies Of Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missing geographies

Parr

Fyfe

2012

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A crucial factor in determining police response to a riot, and indeed for policing in general12, is an understanding of the spatio-temporal distribution of events. The London riots are notable for the fact that, despite being apparently catalysed by a specific incident - the fatal shooting by a police officer of a suspect in Tottenham, North London, and a subsequent peaceful protest - disorder escalated in a dramatic and unanticipated way, spreading widely across the city.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

A mathematical model of the London riots and their policing

Davies

Fry

Wilson

et al. 2013

Sci Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In August 2011, several areas of London experienced episodes of large-scale disorder, comprising looting, rioting and violence. Much subsequent discourse has questioned the adequacy of the police response, in terms of the resources available and strategies used. In this article, we present a mathematical model of the spatial development of the disorder, which can be used to examine the effect of varying policing arrangements. The model is capable of simulating the general emergent patterns of the events and focusses on three fundamental aspects: the apparently-contagious nature of participation; the distances travelled to riot locations; and the deterrent effect of policing. We demonstrate that the spatial configuration of London places some areas at naturally higher risk than others, highlighting the importance of spatial considerations when planning for such events. We also investigate the consequences of varying police numbers and reaction time, which has the potential to guide policy in this area.

show abstract

“…Policing is increasingly recognized as an important interlocutor within the framework of urban governance. Debates over how precisely to consider police within this matrix swirl between police as agents of the state and police action on the ground (Herbert ; Stuart ; Yarwood ). The purpose here is not to settle these debates, but rather to highlight the role of police in the urban demographic and social transformations required by the LA post‐Fordist economy.…”

Section: Conclusion: Political Economy Race and Urban Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…He finds that residents involved in these community‐government efforts resent the offloading of government responsibility. These studies contend that urban police practices implicate a larger consideration of neoliberal governance (Yarwood ). Rather than addressing police tactics or backgrounding police as automatons enforcing unjust law, this article extends these analyses by highlighting the dynamic role of police in reshaping urban environments.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Policing the Anticommunity: Race, Deterritorialization, and Labor Market Reorganization in South Los Angeles

Roussell¹

2015

Law Soc Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks—the territorial imperative and community partnership—which remain central more than 20 years later. At the same time, LA has undergone a significant black‐to‐Latino demographic shift linked with its restructured economy. This article discusses these changes using archival analysis and 5 years of participant observation in one South LA precinct. Police help to reshape the demography of South LA in ways conducive to post‐Fordist economic shifts. The “community” concept appropriated by urban governance initiatives is composed against an unwanted “anticommunity,” which serves to heighten territorial control over black and Latino residents. Rather than encourage community cogovernance over the institution of policing, community rhetoric facilitates racial preference in neighborhood transition under the auspices of an increasingly bifurcated labor market.

show abstract

The geographies of policing

Cited by 79 publications

References 63 publications

Missing geographies

Missing geographies

A mathematical model of the London riots and their policing

Policing the Anticommunity: Race, Deterritorialization, and Labor Market Reorganization in South Los Angeles

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About