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30th anniversary celebration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CPS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday September 17th 2019 \u2013 Ghent University (Campus Aula, Universiteitsstraat 4, 9000 Gent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference in cooperation with the Working group on Policing of the European Society of Criminology ESC and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police and policing services face increasing challenges as our society has evolved and is evolving on a daily basis towards a more complex, diverse, enhanced and digital (in short: smart<\/em>) society in which technology and digital evolutions play a crucial role. Societal changes imply and require changes in police and policing, yet adapting to these fast-changing contexts is not as easy as it may seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do see important oscillations in police organizations all over the world in general and in Western European countries in particular. Often, these changes are set up with a view on effectiveness and efficiency (in many cases accompanied by a centralization of police services). Terpstra, Fyfe & Salet, 2019 argue that these changes might generate some unintended changes in the police organization. They stipulate that the police have become more at a distance, more impersonal and formal, less direct, and more decontextualized (<\/em>Terpstra, Fyfe & Salet, 2019\u200b; Terpstra, 2018; Terpstra & Fyfe, 2014, 2015)). The abstract police are also less dependent on personal knowledge of officer(s), as this is increasingly being replaced by \u2018system knowledge\u2019, framed within the \u2018logic\u2019 and categorizations of computer data systems (Ericson & Haggerty, 1997 as cited in Fyfe et al, 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of these organizational adaptations, some authors say that dramatically little has changed in regard to policing. Loftus (2008) for example explains that the adaptations remain mostly surface level changes, that have not changed the intrinsic nature of police forces. Police culture, in her view, is therefore still associated with cynicism, suspicion, machismo, and a crime-fighting mind-set. Other authors still consider the male dominated managerial culture of the police as well (Silvestri, 2018, Osterlind and Haake, 2010), although there are, undoubtedly, positive evolutions in diverse fields, such as the gender element and the opportunities for \u2018outsiders\u2019 to enter the police force (though both groups still stumble upon a number of difficulties) (Silvestri, 2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Neill and Fyfe (2017) signal other tensions in the field of policing such as the impact of private policing on the policing landscape (that in many cases has evolved towards a plural policing landscape). On a more specific level, issues concerning the increased demands for police education, the impact of technology on policing and legitimacy, the problematic search for human capital,\u2026 also urge us to look ahead and to challenge police researchers and practitioners to contemplate on the current strains on policing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this conference, we aim to grasp the different evolutions and non-evolutions that surround policing in the current social and societal climate, and stimulate readers to think about the future of policing, taking the changed contexts and challenges into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the conference all conference attendants will be invited to join the 30 years celebration party at Gaston Rooftop Bar in Ghent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Programme<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Marleen Easton (Ghent University, Belgium)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30:  Welcoming on behalf of the Flemish Centre for Policing and Security CPS<\/strong>
Marleen Easton (Ghent University, Belgium) on behalf of the Flemish Centre for Policing and Security CPS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9h40: Welcoming on behalf of the ESC Working Group on Policing<\/strong>
Tom Cockcroft (Leeds Beckett University, UK) on behalf of the ESC Working Group on Policing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9h50: \u2018Abstract Police\u2019<\/strong> Text abstract police<\/a>
Jan Terpstra (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands), Nicholas Fyfe (University of Dundee, Schotland) and Renze Salet (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10h20: Police Culture<\/strong> Download presentation<\/a>
Tom Cockcroft (Leeds Beckett University, UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10h50: Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11h15:  Gender equality<\/strong> Download presentatie<\/a>
Ulrika Haake (Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11h45: Plural Policing<\/strong> Download presentation<\/a>
Megan O\u2019Neil (Dundee University, Scotland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12h15:  Legitimacy and Technology<\/strong> Download presentation<\/a>
Liz Aston (Edinburgh Napier University \u2013 SIPR, Scotland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13h00-14h00: Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14h00-15h00:  Workshops 1, 2, 3 & 4 (parallel workshops)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n