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Zusatztext This is a comprehensive! well laid out! state of the art! survey of the police response to violent racist behaviour! set in context of the history and sociological literature of racism and policing in this country ... This brilliant study will become an essential text for anyone (and everyone should be) concerned with racism and policing. Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Bowling is a lecturer in Law at King's College London. He gained his doctorate from the London School of Economics whilst working as a senior research fellow in the Home Office. He was then a visiting professor at John Jay College, City University of New York. Klappentext This book gives us a detailed examination of the official documents--and of the historical origins--of racist violence in Britain. The author also employs the findings of this examination! as presented alongside an in-depth case study of racial attacks and police responses in East London! to ponder the question of why the ideas and language of white supremacy and racial exclusion direct violence at "non-white" individuals! and why police response is so routinely ineffectual. This volume reveals many insights into racist Britain that will be of interest to both academics in this area and those professionals who routinely deal with! or answer for! the acts and consequences of racism. Zusammenfassung This fascinating book documents the everyday abuse, assault, and intimidation that is suffered by black and Asian people in Great Britain every day, using information gathered in an East London London case study. The author explains and analyses the process through which violence is targeted at these minorities, and the role that the ideas and language of racial exclusion take in this process. The failure of the police to respond to this problem is then looked at in depth. This book is based on detailed analysis of official documents, a victimization survey, interviews, and direct observation, seen in the overall context of the history of race relations in Britain. The author describes many of the thousands of racist attacks that have occurred in recent years and the events in the last two decades that have shaped English racism, and the political response to it. In this paperback edition Ben Bowling's Preface examines the racist murder of the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, whose killing in cold blood on an ordinary English street in April 1993 did not hit the headlines until February 1999, causing reverberations across the whole body of British politics and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface General Editor's Foreword Part I: Context, Concepts and Method 1: The Emergence of Violent Racism as a Public Issue 2: Violent Racism and Policy Formulation (1981-1984) 3: The Evolution of the Multi-agency Approach to Violent Racism 4: Violence, Racism and Crime Surveys: Capturing the process of victimisation Part II: Racism, Violence and Policing in North Plaistow: an empirical study 5: Racism and Victimization 6: Policing Violent Racism in 7: Conclusions Epilogue Appendices ...
