‘Keeping the Peace’ Social Identity, Procedural Justice and the Policing of Football Crowds’

Abstract: This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and absence of collective conflict during football (soccer) crowd events. It provides an analysis of data gathered during longitudinal ethnographic study of fans of Cardiff City Football Club—a group [...]

Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model

Hills, A. 2012. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model. Globalizations  (9)1: 91–106. Public police around the world share certain occupational commonalities, but this does not represent a globalising security culture. Certain norms may appear to facilitate a less ambitious internationalist or transnational culture by modifying police behaviour through processes of socialisation and internalisation, [...]