| Abstract | "Citizens, it is said, have 'lost faith' in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high levels achieved during the 'golden age' of the 1950s. Successive decades of rising crime, political violence and urban disorder, miscarriages of justice, and declining effectiveness have left the police in what seems to be a permanent crisis of legitimation. A once revered national institution has become thoroughly profane." "In this new work on the relationship between English policing and culture, Ian Loader and Aogan Mulcahy reassess and revise this received sociological and popular wisdom on the fate that has befallen the English police."--BOOK JACKET.
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