Abstract
This chapter addresses problematisation of Black presence through the ‘race-relations’ discourse. It traces the establishment of the race-crime nexus and shows how race and crime became discursively linked. It highlights the dearth of empirical research on Black and mixed-race experiences of policing contemporarily, thus establishing the justification for the research.
See Fanon (1986) for discussion on the Fact of Blackness.
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According to Murrell et al. (1998) Babylon refers to ‘Western political and economic domination and cultural imperialism’ (p. 1).
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‘Sus’ law was a commonly used term for the power to stop and search an individual on suspicion of loitering under The Vagrancy Act 1824.
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Long, L.J. (2018). Racialisation and Criminalisation of ‘Blackness’. In: Perpetual Suspects. Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98240-3_2
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