Stuart Lister's Publications
Books
(2007) The Use and Impact of Dispersal Orders: Sticking Plasters and Wake-Up Calls pp. 77 + xiip Policy Press
(2005) Plural Policing: The Mixed Economy of Visible Patrols in England and Wales pp. 128p The Policy Press
(2004) Patrolling with a Purpose: An Evaluation of Police Community Support Officers in Leeds and Bradford City Centres pp. 89 + xip CCJS Press
(2004) The Extended Policing Family: Visible Patrols in Residential Areas pp. 64p York Publishing Services/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
(2003) Great Expectations: Contracted Community Policing in New Earswick pp. 50 + xp York Publishing Services/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
(2003) Bouncers: violence and governance in the night-time economy pp. 323p Oxford University Press
This book explores the growth and development of the night-time economy in relation to the strategies of control imposed by commercial security agents.
Chapters
(2010) Policing Problem Drug Users In: Hucklesby A; Wincup E (eds.) Drug Interventions in Criminal Justice Open University Press
(2009) Police and Policing In: Hucklesby A; Wahidin A (eds.) Criminal Justice pp. 37 - 58 Oxford University Press
(2006) ‘Plural Policing, Local Communities and the market in visible patrols’ In: Dearling; A; Newburn; T; Somerville; P (eds.) Supporting Safe Communities: Housing, crime and communities pp. 95 - 113 Chartered Institute of Housing
(2006) Deconstructing Distraction Burglary: an ageist offence In: Wahidin A; Cain M (eds.) Ageing, Crime and Society Willan
Distraction burglary is broadly understood to be a professional crime that specifically victimises older people. It differs from more conventional forms of burglary because offenders engage with their victims. It therefore displays fairly high levels of organisation and planning and can have devastating effects upon its victims. This chapter draws upon the findings of recent research into the victimisation of older people to deconstruct distraction burglary. In three parts the chapter tells a complex, but important story, and in so doing reviews and also challenges some of the assumptions the underpin the debates over distraction burglary. In part one, our research argues that distraction burglary should be viewed as a family of offences, each variations on the theme, but displaying different modus operandi. Some of these variations are highly organised, cold and calculating patterns of offending behaviour that show the hallmarks of being culturally reproduced across generations of offenders. Others, however, appear to be carried out on-the-spur-of-the-moment and are largely opportunistic. But, to complicate the typology, distraction burglars also tend to be very reflexive to their situation. So, what may start off as a distraction sometimes ends up as an aggravated burglary (barge in). Clearly, distraction burglars are not a heterogeneous group and are therefore hard to access for research. In part two, our research also reveals that the combination of the aggravated nature of the offence and the vulnerability of its victims makes incidents of distraction burglary highly newsworthy. However, in its reportage, the media tends to construct older people as the victims, often at expense of other social groups, thus shaping the formation of remedic policy whilst at the same time reinforcing the idea of older people as potential victims and identifying opportunities for offenders. Furthermore, policy responses to distraction burglary are shaped by the impact of publicity upon a very sympathetic public. Increased public ‘knowledge’ of the issue can lead to a rise in levels of reporting by the public and also rates of recording by the police because of sensitisation towards the issue within the police service. In the case of the latter, not only are police officers themselves subject to media sensitisation, but public concerns about the offence also lead to calls for the police organisation to respond. Unfortunately, the increases in reporting and recording rates give the outward impression of rising rates of distraction burglary and the publication of the statistics becomes a newsworthy event and contributes further to the media frenzy. This chain of events creates problems for the subsequent management of public expectations of policies designed to reduce distraction burglaries, especially as it reinforces, but also ‘reifies’ the notion of older people as a coherent unit for the delivery of criminal justice policy.
(2002) Bouncers and the Social Context of Violence: Masculinity, Class and Violence in the Night-time Economy In: Stanko PB (eds.) The Meanings of Violence 1 pp. 165 - 184 Routledge
Journal Articles
(2008) Young People, Police and Dispersal Powers In: Community Safety Journal 7 (2) Pavilion
(2006) Additional Security Patrols in Residential Areas: Notes from the Marketplace In: Policing and Society 16 (2) pp. 164 - 188 Routledge
This paper presents an overview of an emerging market in residential security patrols in England and Wales. Drawing on recent empirical research, it outlines the fragmented and uneven nature of current developments and highlights coordination deficits and the absence of regulatory oversight. The research illustrates how the growth in competitive relations between different providers of patrol can stymie the development of effective networked security alliances. It demonstrates the capacity of additional policing schemes to fuel unrealistic expectations among local publics and raise security thresholds. Furthermore, it highlights how policing as commodity through residential patrols can foster exclusionary tendencies by serving parochial rather than public interests. This raises important challenges that demand robust forms of governance and accountability to guarantee an equitable and fair distribution of policing and security.
(2005) Violent Hypocrisy: Governance and the Night-Time Economy In: European Journal of Criminology 2 (2) pp. 161 - 183 Sage Publications
(2005) Violence and Control in the Night-Time Economy In: European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 13 (1) pp. 89 - 102 Kluwer Law International
(2004) The patchwork shape of reassurance policing in England and Wales - Integrated local security quilts or frayed, fragmented and fragile tangled webs? In: POLICING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICE STRATEGIES & MANAGEMENT 27 pp. 413 - 430
(2002) Location, Location, Location: Preventing Alcohol related violence via developmental controls. In: Criminal Justice Matters 47 pp. 34 - 35
(2002) Violence as a Commercial Resource In: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 12 (2) pp. 245 - 249 Routledge
(2002) Door Lore: The Art and Economics of Intimidation In: The British Journal of Criminology 42 (2) pp. 352 - 370 Oxford University Press, Academic Division
(2001) Accounting for Bouncers: occupational licensing as a mechanism for regulation In: Criminal Justice Journal 1 (4) pp. 363 - 384
(2001) Closing Time for Crime and Disorder. More late-night pubs and clubs have resulted in increased crime and disorder In: Police Review 109ii (5650) pp. 20 - 21 Police Review Publishing Co.
(2001) Get Ready To Duck: Bouncers and the Reality of Ethnographic Research on Violent Groups. In: The British Journal of Criminology 41 (3) pp. 536 - 548 Oxford University Press, Academic Division
(2001) The '24-Hour City' - Condition Critical? In: Town and Country Planning 70 (11) pp. 300 - 302
(2001) Be Nice: the training of bouncers In: Criminal Justice Matters 45 pp. 20 - 21
This Town’s a Different Town Today: Policing and Regulating the Night-time Economy In: Criminal Justice and Criminology
This paper considers recent policing and regulatory responses to the night-time economy in England and Wales. Drawing upon the findings of a broader two-year qualitative investigation of local and national developments in alcohol policy, it identifies a dramatic acceleration of statutory activity, with twelve new or revised powers, and several more in prospect, introduced by the Labour Government within its first decade in office. Interview data and documentary sources are used to explore the degree to which the introduction of such powers, often accompanied by forceful rhetoric and high profile police action, has translated into a sustained expansion of control. Many of the new powers are spatially directed, as well as being focused upon the actions of distinct individuals or businesses, yet the willingness and capacity to apply powers to offending individuals in comparison to businesses is often variable and asymmetrical. The practice of negotiating order in the night-time economy is riddled with tensions and ambiguities that reflect the ad hoc nature and rapid escalation of the regulatory architecture. Night-time urban security governance is understood as the outcome of subtle organisational and interpersonal power-plays. Social orders, normative schemas and apportionments of blame thus arise as a byproduct of patterned (structural) relations.
Reports
(2008) Street Policing of Problem Drug Users Joseph Rowntree Foundation
(2004) Evaluation of the Leeds Distraction Burglary Initiative pp. 0 - 79 Home Office
This report evaluates the Leeds Distraction Burglary Initiative (LDBI), which was a two-year crime reduction project designed to reduce incidents of distraction burglary within the Metropolitan District of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
(2004) A Study of Visible Security Patrols in Residential Areas Joseph Rowntree Foundation
(2003) An Evaluation of a Contracted Community Policing Experiment Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Contact Details
- Tel: 0113 343 5075
- Email: S.C.Lister@leeds.ac.uk