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Violence, Policing, and War

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The chapter analyses the rise of paramilitary styles of policing in the Anglo-American context. It describes the militarization of police and the way policing functions have been absorbed into the military parallel with the various wars on crime and terror. It sets out the different and formally separate operational philosophies of the police and the military and the implications for justice and democracy of hybrid policing military frames. It contextualizes this shift as part of a continuing legacy of colonial relations of power in white settler countries and former colonial powers. It describes the relevance of counter-insurgency strategy developed by colonial powers to overcome anti-colonial struggles and argues that paramilitary policing reflects and reinvigorates colonial relations of power within and between nation states.

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McCulloch, J. (2016). Violence, Policing, and War. In: McGarry, R., Walklate, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43170-7_14

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