‘Lies, Damn Lies!’ Decolonising a module through content, discourse & pedagogical reflections

Tracey Davanna; Esmorie Miller; Peace Ojimba-Baldwin; Rebecca Shepherd

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-75562-0

‘Lies, Damn Lies!’ Decolonising a module through content, discourse & pedagogical reflections

Tracey Davanna, Esmorie Miller, Peace Ojimba-Baldwin, Rebecca Shepherd

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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
Title of host publication	Decolonising Criminology: a toolkit for inclusion
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	5
Pages	87-104
Number of pages	151
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-75562-0
ISBN (Print)	9783031755613
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75562-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2025

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