Policing and the Reproduction of Local Social Order : a case study of Greater Manchester JEFFERY, Bob <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0615-8728>, TUFAIL, Waqas and JACKSON, Will Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/13150/ This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version JEFFERY, Bob, TUFAIL, Waqas and JACKSON, Will (2015). Policing and the Reproduction of Local Social Order : a case study of Greater Manchester. Journal on European History of Law, 6 (1), 118-128. Copyright and re-use policy See http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http://shura.shu.ac.uk Policing and the Reproduction of Local Social Order: a case study of Greater Manchester Jeffery, B. (Sheffield Hallam University)* Tufail, W. (Leeds Beckett University) Jackson, W. (Liverpool John Moores University) *Corresponding author,
[email protected] Dr Bob Jeffery, 2.06 Heart of Campus, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield Hallam University, S10 2BP. Abstract In light of increasing concerns in relation to police accountability, this article reviews the history of public order policing for one large provincial force (Greater Manchester Police). Explaining our misgivings about those narratives that discern a trend towards 'negotiation' and 'facilitation' between protestors and the police, we outline a critical framework for the analysis of police practice. This account is centred upon an understanding of the development of policing as the cornerstone of the fabrication of bourgeois social order, but stresses that this is mediated through its formal subservience to the rule of law, conflicting priorities and the need to establish 'patterns of accommodation' with the populations that are to be policed.