CHAPTER 18: SECURITY
Security=the absence of danger, fear, anxiety, the condition of being safe from harm
of threats
o Inside: state’s capacity to maintain order in its borders using the instruments
of the coercive state. Relationship between state and non state actors
o Outside: protection against threats beyond borders, ability to fight wars and
resists military attacks
‘war’ opposed to ‘crime’
Order: refers to stable and predictable forms of behaviour. I) linked with political
authority to be achieved through system of law and order ii) order to equality and
justice to be achieved through cooperation and mutual respect
DOMESTIC: (the police lies at the heart of the coercive state)
The police is more integrated into society to provide domestic order, 3 approaches
for its role:
1) Liberal: the police is neutral body to maintain domestic order through the protection
of individual rights, promoting stability and personal security. No broader political
action.
2) Conservative: to preserve the authority of the state and to ensure that its
jurisdiction extends throughout the community, controlling social unrest and
disorder. Mechanism of political control.
3) Radical: tool of oppression that act in the interests of the state rather than of the
people, serves elites
‘civil policing’: the role of the police in the enforcement of criminal law
‘community policing’: a constant police presence in the community seeks to build trust
and cooperation with the public (eg Japan)
‘theory of broken windows’=strict enforcement in relation to minor offences in order
to reduce levels of serious crime ‘fire-brigade policing’
Police can be political: i)carried out in accordance with political biases in favour of certain
groups ii) impact on specifically politically disputes
POLICE STATES:
=totalitarian features in the excessive and unregulated power vested in the police
to curtain civil liberty and create a climate of fear and intimidation in which all
aspects of social existence are under political control.
The police acts as a private army controlled by and acts in the interests of a ruling
elite. Eg NAZI and brownshirts
MILITARY:
I) virtual monopoly of weaponry &coercive power
Security=the absence of danger, fear, anxiety, the condition of being safe from harm
of threats
o Inside: state’s capacity to maintain order in its borders using the instruments
of the coercive state. Relationship between state and non state actors
o Outside: protection against threats beyond borders, ability to fight wars and
resists military attacks
‘war’ opposed to ‘crime’
Order: refers to stable and predictable forms of behaviour. I) linked with political
authority to be achieved through system of law and order ii) order to equality and
justice to be achieved through cooperation and mutual respect
DOMESTIC: (the police lies at the heart of the coercive state)
The police is more integrated into society to provide domestic order, 3 approaches
for its role:
1) Liberal: the police is neutral body to maintain domestic order through the protection
of individual rights, promoting stability and personal security. No broader political
action.
2) Conservative: to preserve the authority of the state and to ensure that its
jurisdiction extends throughout the community, controlling social unrest and
disorder. Mechanism of political control.
3) Radical: tool of oppression that act in the interests of the state rather than of the
people, serves elites
‘civil policing’: the role of the police in the enforcement of criminal law
‘community policing’: a constant police presence in the community seeks to build trust
and cooperation with the public (eg Japan)
‘theory of broken windows’=strict enforcement in relation to minor offences in order
to reduce levels of serious crime ‘fire-brigade policing’
Police can be political: i)carried out in accordance with political biases in favour of certain
groups ii) impact on specifically politically disputes
POLICE STATES:
=totalitarian features in the excessive and unregulated power vested in the police
to curtain civil liberty and create a climate of fear and intimidation in which all
aspects of social existence are under political control.
The police acts as a private army controlled by and acts in the interests of a ruling
elite. Eg NAZI and brownshirts
MILITARY:
I) virtual monopoly of weaponry &coercive power
