[ecrea] Policing the Crisis: 35 Years on - 27th March 2013

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POLICING THE CRISIS – 35 YEARS ON

Date: 27 March 2013

Venue:

Committee Room 3
Crime and Conflict Research Centre
Middlesex University
Hendon Campus
The Burroughs
London NW4 4BT
UK

Policing the Crisis – the influential book on 'Mugging, the State and 
Law and Order' provided us with the analytical tools to interpret how a 
social phenomenon was objectified and transformed into a moral panic, 
ultimately becoming a pressing issue of the day. Its authors sought to 
unearth the relations of social forces that were obscured by portrayals 
of urban streets 'infested with violent hoodlums' that dominated the 
public eye and constructed an ideology of crisis in which the police 
force turned into the only bulwark against the breakdown of social 
order. 'Aggro Britain', as it was described in the 1970s, referred to a 
constructed social crisis centred on street crime, although the call for 
'policing the crisis', in fact, derived from the anxiety caused by 
growing political, economic and racial conflict.

Thirty-five years on, with anxieties spreading across the world, the 
notion of 'policing the crisis' is still among us, although those being 
policed are not those who caused the present crisis.

This conference poses three main questions: What can we learn from that 
pioneering book of the 1970s to make sense of the way social and 
political dissent is dealt with in our contemporary context? What are 
today's forms of social control? What shape do resistances take in the 
face of growing coercive states that are strong with the weak and weak 
with the strong?

Policing the Crisis (by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John 
Clarke and Brian Roberts) is about to be republished with a new 
Foreword, Afterword and Index.

The conference is free and open to all. No advance registration 
necessary. For more information, please contact Dr Emma Dowling 
((E.Dowling /at/ mdx.ac.uk)) or Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero ((V.Ruggiero /at/ mdx.ac.uk)).

Programme

9.45-10.00: Welcome
Carole Adams and Vincenzo Ruggiero

10.00-10.30
Emma Dowling (Middlesex University)
Introduction

10.30-11.00
Tony Jefferson
Policing the Crisis: Thirty-Years On

11.00-11.30
Colin Sumner (University of Cork, Republic of Ireland)
Policing the Crisis: Some Notes on Its Analytic Gains

11.30-12.00
David Miller (University of Bath)
Moral Panic, Class Power and Media Power

12.00-12.30
Paul Mason (author and journalist)
Why It's Kicking off Everywhere: Hierarchical Force Meets Horizontally 
Irremovable Object

12.30-13.00
Estelle du Boulay (Newham Monitoring Project and Network for Police 
Monitoring)
Activism and the Politics of Policing

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-14.30
Jock Young (John Jay College, New York)

14.30-15.00
Sue Mew (Middlesex University)
The Leveson Report, British Media and the Crisis Within

15.00-15.30
Stafford Scott (Tottenham Rights)
Everything is Different, But Has Anything Changed?

15.30-16.00
Joshua Castellino (Middlesex University)
International Legal Responses to Uprisings in the Middle East

16.00-17.00: Panel
Anthony Goodman, Jon Mulholland, Lucy Neville, David Porteous, Erin 
Sanders-McDonagh, Keir Sothcott (Middlesex University)


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Ben Little
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@BenLittle





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