Maintaining strong cooperation in police and criminal justice matters after Brexit is a matter of priority for the EU and the UK. However, the departure of the country from the Union raises the question of whether current EU legislation in the field will still be able to apply to future EU-UK...

This paper explores the slow pace of change within police organizations. It examines some possible reasons for this slowness, and suggests that new policies and legislation do not automatically bring about desired transformation within the police. The paper argues that effective police...

This paper considers the nature and impact of the organizational memories that form the core of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) official discourse. As the ongoing Northern Ireland peace process developed, the issue of police reform moved to the forefront of the political agenda. Reform...

After 1918, policing 'modernized' by switching resources from drunks and vagrants to motorists and indictable offenders. Since the late nineteenth century, traditional preventive policing practices had been under threat. By the end of the first world war a crisis had developed when the Exchequer...

In this paper I focus on the political spatiality of immigration enforcement. In particular, I suggest that in the last two decades a network of immigration enforcement has been layered over existing spatial features of the American landscape. I examine the network of highways and...

In the late 1820s, when British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced legislation into the British parliament to create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was developed to allay public fears that the new institution...

This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered character (and effects) of institutional formation, and tests it in a case study of the new Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales. Inspired by new institutionalism's generic claim that ‘the organisation of...

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

This study examines whether representative bureaucracy improves organizational integrity. The evidence is from English and Welsh police forces that implemented ambitious targets to increase ethnic minority officers during the 1999-2010 period. Specifically, we present evidence of an association...