The Police

The Police: Autonomy and Consent is composed of two parts dealing mainly on the theme of police autonomy (Chapters 2-6) and the reciprocal theme of consent (Chapters 7-9).
In particular, Chapter 2 is devoted to an historical account of the development of early police autonomy. Chapters 3 and 4 consider the political relation of the successor force within the local state in the mid-1970s, and the historical changes in the relationship between the police institution and the central state, respectively. Subsequent two chapters locate the core problem in considering police independence within the legal domain, and the role and political orientations of the three intrapolice organizations in reinforcing the development of autonomy. Chapter 7 demonstrates that different forms of relationship have historically characterized the relations between police institutions and the different social classes. The last two chapters present evidence on consent, and draws the themes of autonomy and consent together by focusing on the role of the chief police officer, positioned at the nexus between structural demands and organizational restraints, in continually negotiating definitions and practices of police work.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Epigraph

1. The Police and the State
   Models of the State
   The Perspective of the State Agents
   The Chiefs and the Local State - Towards an Alternative Theorization of Urban Managers
   Notes
   Part One. Autonomy
2. The Chiefs and the Local State: I. The Development of Managerial Autonomy
   Introduction-The Political Relation
   The Historical Relation between Police and Local State
   The Political Economy of the City at the Time of Police Reform
   The Origins of the Liverpool Police
   The Old Police
   Fractional Conflicts over the New Police
   The Political Relation 1836-1910
   The Development of Autonomy-The Order to "Proceed against Brothels"
   The Construction of the Managerial Role
   Notes
3. The Chiefs and the Local State Since the 1964 Police Act
   Introduction
   The Orthodox Analyses: Exegesis and Critique
   The Demise of the Local Political Relation
   The Political Relation in the 1970s
   The Relation of the Committee within the Local State
   The Financial Constraints
   The Structuring of Information
   The Practice of Local Police Management
   Notes
4. The Central State and the Negotiation of Resources
   The Relationship Prior to World War I
   The Relation Between the Wars
   Post-War-Negotiation via Formulae
   The Police Inspectorate
   The Home Office Circular
   Parliament and Residual Forms of Accountability
   Notes
5. The Legal Relation
   The Police Institution and the Doctrine of "Original Powers"
   The Power of Prosecution
   Prosecution Power-The Example o f Cautioning
   Standardization and Public Order Offences
   Notes
6. The Police Institution
   The Chiefs as Negotiators of Law Enforcement Resources
   The Institutional Form of Police Independence
   Negotiation, Independence and the Police Institution
   Notes
   Part Two. Consent
7. Consent: Class Relations in Police History
   Introduction
   Orthodox Histories of the Police: A Discourse of Consent
   The Class Relations of the Police Institution in Social History
   Notes
8. Consent, Dissent and Reconstruction
   Consent and Dissent-The Ambivalence in Attitudes to the Police
   Community Policing and the Re-Construction of Consent
   Notes
9. Police Work, Negotiation, Autonomy and Consent
   The Constraints on the Police Manager
   The Conjunction between Police Organization and the Major Social Classes
   Autonomy and Consent-The "Concrete" Limits
   Postscript: The Toxteth Riots, 1981
   The Historical Context
   The Conjunction Between Police and Society
   The Legal Relation
   The Riots and Autonomy and Consent in the City
   Bibliography
   Index