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Police accountability and the commodification of policing in China: A study of police/business posters in Guangzhou
Xu,Jianhua
2013-10-30
Source PublicationBritish Journal of Criminology
ISSN0007-0955
Volume53Issue:6Pages:1093-1117
Abstract

Based on a study of police/business posters in Guangzhou, this paper explores commodification of policing in China. It is argued that, while the commodification of policing in Western societies has its roots in the rise of neo-liberal thinking, it is unique in China for its lack of accountability of police power. Chengguan, the urban management department, is not an effective counter-power to the police in their making of illegal police/business posters due to institutional arrangement and practical reasons. The commodification of police power is not just a local police phenomenon, but a wider police institutional phenomenon. It is also part of the symbiotic relations between state power and economic capital in a wider Chinese society. Data collection involved three years' ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth semi-structured interviews with the police, police scholars, businessmen, urban management officers, ordinary citizens and security guards.

KeywordChina Commodification Policing Posters
DOI10.1093/bjc/azt038
URLView the original
Indexed BySSCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaCriminology & Penology
WOS SubjectCriminology & Penology
WOS IDWOS:000325991500007
PublisherOXFORD UNIV PRESSGREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84886399116
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Corresponding AuthorXu,Jianhua
AffiliationDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Macau, PG45Pearl Jubilee Building,Macao
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Xu,Jianhua. Police accountability and the commodification of policing in China: A study of police/business posters in Guangzhou[J]. British Journal of Criminology, 2013, 53(6), 1093-1117.
APA Xu,Jianhua.(2013). Police accountability and the commodification of policing in China: A study of police/business posters in Guangzhou. British Journal of Criminology, 53(6), 1093-1117.
MLA Xu,Jianhua."Police accountability and the commodification of policing in China: A study of police/business posters in Guangzhou".British Journal of Criminology 53.6(2013):1093-1117.
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