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Introduction
Jacques de Maillard is Professor of Political Science at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Director of the Cesdip (a research centre affiliated to the CNRS, the University of Versailles, CY Paris University and the French ministry of Justice). His interests are in the questions of governance of security, plural policing, police reforms and the comparative study of policing in European countries.
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September 2005 - August 2010
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This paper examines ‘auxiliary’ police in three European countries and the extent to which they continue to present a pluralisation of public sector policing. Examining findings from existing empirical research, we will argue that despite different origins, systems of governance, formal powers and levels of centralisation, the police auxiliaries in...
This book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the Western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems, such as economic austerity, multi-level governance, transnational change, relations with minorities and transformation of delinquency.
While other books focus on policing in relation...
As an issue for public debate, police stops are not new. In the United States, the Kerner Commission in 1968 identified controls as one of the triggers of the urban riots of the 1960s. In England, the riots in Brixton, South London, in 1981 followed the massive use of the ‘sus laws’ to search young Black men during Operation Swamp. In both countrie...
La question des violences policières, très prégnante dans le débat public aux États-Unis depuis très longtemps, s’est aussi installée dans les débats français et prend une place croissante, sous l’effet de la médiatisation d’incidents majeurs et de l’intervention d’associations ou citoyens pour porter ces problématiques. Parmi les sujets jugés préo...
Cet article analyse le rôle des bailleurs sociaux dans les partenariaux locaux en matière de sécurité et de prévention de la délinquance. Dans un domaine que l’État ne régule plus seul, il souligne l’implication croissante de ces acteurs dans le champ de la sécurité selon une logique de prévention situationnelle, en réponse aux demandes de leurs lo...
Dans cet entretien qui vise à illustrer les dynamiques de réforme touchant l’administration de la sécurité intérieure, Marie-France Monéger-Guyomarc’h revient sur son expérience en tant que directrice de l’Inspection générale de la police nationale de 2012 à 2018. Au cours de son mandat, elle a conduit la fusion entre l’Inspection générale des serv...
Cet article analyse le rôle des bailleurs sociaux dans les partenariats locaux en matière de sécurité et de prévention de la délinquance. Dans un domaine que l'État ne régule plus seul, il souligne l'implication croissante de ces acteurs dans le champ de la sécurité selon une logique de prévention situationnelle, en réponse aux demandes de leurs lo...
In several Western countries, police stops have become the object of political controversies on what the objectives and targets of police activities should be. By using the examples of two European countries (France and Scotland) where the issue has been highly politicised over the last 15 years, we will conduct a comparative analysis to show how i...
Consolidant l’action partenariale locale entreprise depuis les années 1980, les Groupes de partenariat opérationnel (GPO), lancés en 2019 dans le cadre de la « police de sécurité du quotidien », reposent sur une stratégie de responsabilisation et une logique du « faire avec » : la police nationale s’engage dans des actions conjointes avec d’autres...
Cette recherche veut contribuer à aborder de manière plus documentée trois objets :
- Compte tenu de l’absence d’actualisation des travaux de Monjardet (voir Monjardet et Gorgeon, 2005) sur une cohorte de gardiens de la paix (voir cependant Coulangeon et al., 2012, mais les données datent du début des années 2000), on compte trop peu d’information...
L’omniprésence des enjeux de sécurité dans le champ politique et médiatique donne à voir un processus de sécuritisation des phénomènes sociaux, et de pluralisation des acteurs et des univers impliqués dans leur prise en charge. Le présent numéro entend précisément questionner à nouveaux frais cette double dynamique contemporaine, et en saisir les e...
Experiencing Police Stops in France
Police stops are teachable moments, as they generate information concerning the status of the parties involved and the relationship between them. In France, research has highlighted the concentration of identity checks on young males from ethnic minorities living in urban areas. However, the contents of the inter...
Whether it is a matter of incentivizing partnerships, implementing performance
indicators, developing regional police forces, or, on the contrary, nationalizing
police organizations, the contemporary transformations of European police systems
have rarely been analyzed from a comparative perspective. Looking at the reform trajectories
of three diffe...
Zusammenfassung Unser Artikel untersucht die Frage des polizeilichen Rassismus und zeigt, wie die alltäglicheren Rassifizierungsdynamiken in den beruflichen Erfahrungen französischer und deutscher Polizist*innen verankert sind. Anhand vergleichender Feldstudien in beiden Ländern, zeigt der Artikel, wie die berufliche Sozialisation von Polizist*inne...
Zusammenfassung Unser Artikel untersucht die Frage des polizeilichen Rassismus und zeigt, wie die alltäglicheren Rassifizierungsdynamiken in den beruflichen Erfahrungen französischer und deutscher Polizist*innen verankert sind. Anhand vergleichender Feldstudien in beiden Ländern, zeigt der Artikel, wie die berufliche Sozialisation von Polizist*inne...
Introduction To understand contemporary changes to the context, processes and cultures of policing one needs to comprehend the extent to which these are all bound up within wider questions of how control is exerted on police organisations. Furthermore, such elements of control are not linear, explicit and necessarily transparent, but applied throug...
Diffusion des logiques partenariales, mise en place d’indicateurs de performance, développement de polices régionales ou au contraire nationalisation des polices : les recompositions des systèmes policiers européens restent peu analysées de façon comparée. À partir des trajectoires de réformes de trois pays (un de tradition napoléonienne, France ;...
As with other parts of the public sector, policing has had to confront the principles and processes attached to new public management. This paper examines the impact of police performance management on the ‘occupational professionalism’ of British policing actors with a particular focus on organisational units concerned with criminal investigation....
Styles of policing are reflected in the methods, decisions and priorities of law enforcement agencies. Based on an ethnographic study of police work in two major French metropolitan areas, this article identifies the styles of policing enforced in France, based on the use of discretionary stop-and-search. Despite nuances due to the variety of units...
The purpose of the book is ambitious: to explore comparatively the relative influence of discretion, law and other rule structures on police practices in police detention; and, more globally, to highlight what it reveals about the state’s relationship with its citizens in neoliberal democracies (p. 3). The issues raised are undeniably crucial as th...
Dans quelle mesure l'usage des instruments quantifiés et le suivi de la performance transforment-ils les modes de gouvernement des polices ? À partir d'une enquête au sein de la Préfecture de police de Paris et du Metropolitan Police Service de Londres, l'article questionne les effets des nouveaux dispositifs néo-managériaux sur deux dimensions de...
Urban security has become a pressing political issue in many European cities. This study seeks to understand why some city governments consider urban security to be a policy priority, whereas others do not. Using data from a recent survey of 2674 city mayors in 28 European countries, we test four hypotheses on factors associated with the prioritiza...
The policing of measures to control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a core aspect of the current corona crisis. This article concentrates on differences in policing the corona crisis in France and the Netherlands. There are huge differences in policing the corona crisis between the two jurisdictions: France with a very strict, repressive appr...
Cet article est consacré aux enjeux analytiques et méthodologiques des recherches portant sur les questions policières, plus précisément sur les polices de sécurité publique. Pour entrer dans un monde traditionnellement rétif au regard extérieur et éviter de se trouver devant un discours convenu, il défend la pertinence de la démarche ethnographiqu...
L’objectif de cet article est de proposer un état critique des connaissances sur les pratiques de contrôles, leurs effets et les politiques auxquelles ils donnent lieu dans les pays occidentaux. Dans un premier temps, nous discutons la question de la disparité et de la disproportionnalité dans les pratiques de contrôle en nous attachant aux profils...
Les questions de sécurité intérieure à l’échelle de l’Union européenne ont fait l’objet de nombreux travaux au croisement de plusieurs traditions de recherches (théories de l’intégration européenne, questions de sécurité, politiques d’immigration, etc.). À partir d’un dialogue critique avec les théories classiques de l’intégration européenne, cette...
Since the early 1990s, three issues have progressively become sustained objects of debates within French policy analysis: the causal role of ideas within public action; the relationship between institutions and actors; and how studying public policies reveals both the state and politics. Indeed, this progression mirrors the way specialists based in...
Introduction
The previous chapter has just explained how policy studies emerged and developed in France in the 1970s and 1980s. This one picks up the baton to show how, from these humble but crucial beginnings, policy studies have since grown in France and become such an institutionalised and omnipresent part not only of sociology and political sci...
Policy analysis in France lays the foundation for a more systematic understanding of policy analysis in the country. In doing so, the volume discusses the role of the State and its restructuring, processes of government and governance, and State-Society relationships and policies as both a process and an outcome. Through 18 chapters contributions f...
This paper analyses the implementation of Compstat-like processes in two large European police organizations: the Metropolitan Police Service in London and the Préfecture de police in Paris. Compstat-like processes are characterized by processes framed by performance indicators and targets, performance assessment sessions, units dedicated to the co...
Les styles de police matérialisent au quotidien le mode d’action, les décisions, les priorités des services de police. À travers une étude ethnographique sur le travail des forces de l’ordre dans deux agglomérations françaises, cet article propose de mettre en lumière le style de police pratiqué en France à l’aune de l’utilisation des contrôles d’i...
Recourse to markets as a political process
Healthcare and police reforms during the british Coalition government (2010-2015)
This article focuses on the introduction and implementation of market instruments in two policy sectors in England : healthcare and security. Three dimensions are highlighted : outsourcing from the public to the private sect...
The goal of the chapter is to study the role of large groups and superordinate group belonging on the level of trust in police, in comparative manner. Their importance is assessed in the context of large cities in France and Germany on a large sample of adolescents by testing theoretical hypotheses on the relationship between ethnicity, religion an...
Cet ouvrage s’attache à un sujet encore trop peu travaillé : la comparaison des polices, ou plus précisément des systèmes de police. Or, comparer permet mieux comprendre les activités policières, en examinant précisément le mélange d’unité et de diversité des types d’organisations, doctrines et stratégies de réformes, relations police-population, m...
Performance management in criminal justice organizations has become a prominent issue in many countries and has faced increasing criticisms by scholars and practitioners. In this regard it is important to examine empirically how performance frameworks work concretely. We do so through the empirical examination of 'performance regimes', that is, the...
Policing styles are reflected in law enforcement agencies' methods, decisions, and priorities. Based on an ethnographic study of police work in two major French metropolitan areas, this article identifies the style of policing enforced in France in light of discretionary identity checks. Even though there are nuances based on the variety of police...
The introduction of new public management methods, combined with the growing use of new technologies, has turned quantified indicators into a crucial element of policing in France. Beyond the political/politician use that can be made of such quantitative data, the issue of how they actually influence everyday policing practices and priorities as we...
Résumé Cet article propose d’analyser comment les administrations françaises impliquées en matière de coopération policière et judiciaire pénale ont modifié leurs organisations, savoirs, savoir-faire et croyances fondamentales en lien avec le processus d’intégration européenne. L’article met en évidence les adaptations organisationnelles ainsi que...
Compared to the burgeoning literature on the determinants of penal policies in various Western countries, and compared to criminology in general, the comparative study of policing is an underdeveloped area of research. We acknowledge the practical and theoretical difficulties of such an approach, but we defend its main benefits. Studying policing c...
Par Jacques de Maillard, président du groupe de travail Adrien Maret, secrétaire scientifique du groupe de travail ; Matthieu Clouzeau Commissaire Divisionnaire Détaché en qualité de Directeur de la Prévention, de la Sécurité et de la Protection de la Ville de Paris ; Virginie Malochet, chercheure associée au Cesdip Lanna Hollo, Legal Officer, Open...
Like many other public administrations, police organizations have always used figures designed to show the efficiency and effectiveness of their services (Wilson, 1963; Lopez, 2007). At all levels of police administration, the use of performance indicators is common currency, both internally (for personnel management) and for communication with ext...
Logics of checking
Policing differences between France and Germany
This paper, which is based on direct observation and interviews of police officers and also on questionnaires administered to the public, compares decisions of French and German police officers regarding identity checks and puts them in the context of the respective styles of polic...
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and findings of a large school survey, this article comparatively questions their determinants. Control practices diverge in their frequency: the German police officers control less proactively than their French counterparts. The ta...
Les politiques publiques constituent une facette centrale de l’activité des gouvernements, que ce soit pour distribuer des revenus, collecter des impôts, conduire une politique extérieure, assurer la sécurité des citoyens, communiquer sur l’action gouvernementale, inciter les acteurs privés ou réguler l’action administrative.
Analyser les politiqu...
This is the fourth volume stemming from the annual doctoral conferences organized by the GERN (Groupement Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités).The GERN is a multidisciplinary consortium of universities, research institutes and scientific researchers in the domain of criminology, deviance and social control. This scientific network of academ...
This paper, which is based on direct observation and interviews of police officers, and also on questionnaires administered to the public, compares decisions of French and German police officers regarding identity checks and puts them in the context of the respective styles of policing. Even though the objectives are similar (fighting crime, assert...
