Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain: A Genealogy

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	1 The Organisation of This Book
	References
2 Debates and Tensions of Evidence-Based Policing
	1 Neoliberal Strategic Alliances
	2 Who Decides on the Evidence? Political Evidence Selection
	3 How to Decide Which ‘Evidence Counts’? Academic Evidence Selection
	4 Enlightenment Scientific Method and ‘Objective Truths’
	5 Summary: Seven Areas of Concern with EBP
	References
3 Epistemological Considerations: Towards a Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Discourse Analysis
	1 Foucault’s Theoretical Concepts
		1.1 Archaeology and Genealogy
		1.2 Episteme, Discourse and Truth Formations
		1.3 Power-Knowledge
		1.4 Subject Positioning
		1.5 Techne, Discipline and Governmentality
		1.6 Summary
	2 Discourse Analytical Methodology
		2.1 A Tripartite Framework for Discourse Analysis
	3 A Workable Method for Discourse Analysis
		3.1 Text Selection
			Academic Texts
			Operational Policing Texts
			Political and Official Texts
			Special Interest Group Texts
		3.2 Coding
		3.3 Analysis
	4 A Note on Validity
	References
4 Story-Lines of Evidence-Based Policing
	1 Policing Improvement
		1.1 The Cops Need Enlightening
		1.2 Improvement as Economic Efficiency
		1.3 What Works
	2 Real Science
		2.1 The Nature of ‘Evidence’
		2.2 Medicalisation
		2.3 Treatment
		2.4 Dosage
		2.5 Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) and Experiments
	3 Development of Evidence-Based Policing
		3.1 Implementation
		3.2 Critique
	4 Summary
	References
5 Subject Positions of Evidence-Based Policing
	1 Subject Positions ‘Within’ Policing
		1.1 Battler Cops and Professional Officers
	2 Subject Positions Within Academia
		2.1 The Magicians
		2.2 The Priests
		2.3 The Gurus
		2.4 The Prophets
	3 Subject Positions of Politicians
		3.1 The Independent Non-ideological Politician
	4 Summary
	References
6 Institutional Modifications of Evidence-Based Policing
	1 Introduction
	2 Academic Institutional Modification
		2.1 New University Courses
		2.2 New Publications
		2.3 New EBP ‘Knowledge’ Partnerships
		2.4 Research Funding
		2.5 New Research Centres and Conferences
	3 Institutional Modification in Policing
		3.1 College of Policing
		3.2 Evidence-Based Research Driving Policy
	4 Institutional Modifications in Political Governance of Policing
		4.1 Evidence-Based ‘Requirements’
	5 Societies’ of Evidence-Based Policing (SEBP)
	6 Summary
	References
7 Conclusions
	References
References
Index