Wicks, Nikhaela (2024) The racial ideology of the British Police: Protecting and maintaining the racial interests of the white institution. British Journal of Criminology, . pp. 1-16. ISSN 0007-0955. E-ISSN 1464-3529. (doi:10.1093/bjc/azae043) (KAR id:106694)
PDF
Publisher pdf
Language: English
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
|
|
Download this file (PDF/481kB) |
Preview |
Request a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader | |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae043 |
Abstract
Previous canonical writings on racism and policing have focussed on the shift from overt to covert articulations (Loftus 2010; Holdaway and O’Neill 2013), finding that racism is communicated primarily by white, heterosexist men in ‘white spaces’ (Loftus 2008). This paper moves beyond individualistic conceptions of racism to explore how police officers subscribe to a white racial ideology (Bonilla-Silva 2018). By drawing upon over 600 h of observations and interviews and discussions with over 60 officers, this paper explores four police discourses that underplay, defend and maintain the unequal racial status quo in policing: (1) individualization, (2) historicization, (3) discursive deracialization and (4) racial stories.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/bjc/azae043 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | policing; 'race'; racism, whiteness; discourse analysis |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Funders: | University of Westminster (https://ror.org/04ycpbx82) |
Depositing User: | Nikhaela Wicks |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2024 08:26 UTC |
Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2024 11:13 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106694 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
- Link to SensusAccess
- Export to:
- RefWorks
- EPrints3 XML
- BibTeX
- CSV
- Depositors only (login required):