Abstract
This chapter in provides a critical historiography of British police that reveals opportunities to decolonise parts of the Criminology curriculum, higher education (HE) space and perhaps more ambitiously parts of the criminal legal sector (CLS). Focusing on the founding of centralised British police forces, the chapter uses one module, Policing and Society, to explain how decolonising the curriculum can take place both inside and outside the teaching and learning space. Although the police comprise just one part of the CLS, they are the most visible face of state power and provide a gateway to further injustices. In positioning decolonisation to its history, it not only reveals their colonial foundations but its continuum to today’s policing practices.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Decolonising Criminology: a toolkit for inclusion |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 87-104 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-75562-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Feb 2025 |
