Jacques de Maillard

Wesley SKOGAN

Cet ouvrage se propose de dépasser les postures antagonistes sur les questions policières en faisant la synthèse des savoirs produits par les sciences sociales des dernières années. Car la police – qu'elle soit nationale ou locale, militaire et civile, privée et publique – est aussi un domaine de recherche où se croisent nouvelles données empiriques et renouvellements théoriques (analyse du lien entre police et politique, de la confiance dans la police par le public, etc.). Observer les polices permet, en outre, de comprendre les transformations contemporaines de l’État, marquées par la diffusion des normes du nouveau management public et la dénationalisation de l’autorité, et, plus largement, les formes de régulation des sociétés traversées par des conflictualités profondes. Jacques de Maillard est professeur de science politique à l'Université Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines et directeur du Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (Cesdip). Wesley G. Skogan est professeur de science politique à la Northwestern University de Chicago et chercheur à l'Institute for Policy Research.

Police et société en France

Paul Ponsaers

Joanna Shapland

Antoinette Verhage

Adam Crawford

"This book contains a selection of papers, which were presented and discussed at the first GERN Summer School for PhD students held in September 2012 at Ghent University, Belgium"--Backcover.

Monitoring Contemporary Security Issues

Crime, Violence, Justice and Social Order

Wesley G. Skogan

La police n’est plus cet objet mystérieux raconté par les anciens « grands flics » et mis en scène par le cinéma, mais un vaste domaine de recherche où se croisent de nouvelles méthodes empiriques (qualitatives et quantitatives) et de nouvelles approches théoriques (analyse du lien entre police et politique, des ressorts de la confiance du public, etc.).Synthèse des travaux les plus récents, cet ouvrage s’intéresse au regard que la société française porte sur l’institution policière. Il propose de dépasser les postures antagonistes afin d’éclairer le rôle et la place de la police, qu’elle soit locale ou nationale, civile ou militaire, publique ou privée. Il montre les ambiguïtés de son travail dans les espaces les plus conflictuels, les banlieues pauvres. Plus largement, il témoigne de ses transformations sous le triple effet de la diffusion du nouveau management public, de la privatisation de la sécurité et des régulations qui émergent dans des sociétés en proie à de fortes tensions.

Axel Groenmeyer

Francesca Viannello

This is the fourth volume stemming from the annual doctoral conferences organized by the GERN. The last edition of the Summer School was held in September 2015 in Paris. The selected theme for this Summer School was "Crime and order, criminal justice experiences and desistance," reflecting the variety of theoretical frameworks and methodologies covered by the current PhD theses in the field of criminal justice and deviance, as well as the fresh and new perspectives on subjective experiences of the criminal justice system and trajectories of desistance. Dissertation. (Series: GERN Research Paper Series, Vol. 4) [Subject: Criminology]~

Crime and Order, Criminal Justice Experiences and Desistance

The eminent contributors to a new collection, Policing in France, provide an updated and realistic picture of how the French police system really works in the 21st century. In most international comparisons, France typifies the "Napoleonic" model for policing, one featuring administrative and political centralization, a strong hierarchical structure, distance from local communities, and a high priority on political policing. France has undergone a process of pluralization in the last 30 years. French administrative and political decentralization has reemphasized the role of local authorities in public security policies; the private security industry has grown significantly; and new kinds of governing models (based on arrangements such as contracts for service provision) have emerged. In addition, during this period, police organizations have been driven toward central government control through the imposition of performance indicators, and a top-down decision was made to integrate the national gendarmerie into the Ministry of Interior. The book addresses how police legitimacy differs across socioeconomic, generational, territorial, and ethnic lines. An analysis of the policing of banlieues (deprived neighborhoods) illustrates the convergence of contradictory police goals, police violence, the concentration of poverty, and entrenched opposition to the states’ representatives, and questions policing strategies such as the use of identity checks. The collection also frames the scope of community policing initiatives required to deal with the public’s security needs and delves into the security challenges presented by terrorist threats and the nuances of the relationship between policing and intelligence agencies. Identifying and explaining the diverse challenges facing French police organizations and how they have been responding to them, this book draws upon a flourishing French-language literature in history, sociology, political science, and law to produce this new English-language synthesis on policing in France. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in and around French policing, as well as students of international law enforcement.

Jacques de Maillard

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