Open AccessThe Long Goodbye: A Note on the Closure of Rural Police-Stations and the Decline of Rural Policing in Britain
Author(s) -
Robert Smith,
Peter Somerville
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
policing a journal of policy and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1752-4520
pISSN - 1752-4512
DOI - 10.1093/police/pat031
Subject(s) - closure (psychology) , rhetoric , criminology , political science , sociology , law , philosophy , linguistics
This research note documents the recent controversy surrounding the closure of police stations in the UK between 2007 and 2012. It examines the statistics as reported in the press and discusses the rhetoric used in the debate to draw conclusions about how the closure of police stations will affect rural policing and rural crime
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