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Sport, Gender and Mega-Events
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-937-6

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Publication date: 1 June 2010

James Hoggett and Clifford Stott

This study seeks to examine what theory of crowd psychology is being applied within public order police training in England and Wales and what accounts of crowds, police…

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This study seeks to examine what theory of crowd psychology is being applied within public order police training in England and Wales and what accounts of crowds, police strategies and tactics subsequently emerge among officers who undertake this training.

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The study uses a multi‐method approach including observations of public order training courses, interviews with students and instructors, and the dissemination of questionnaires.

Findings

The analysis suggests that a form of crowd theory associated with the work of Gustave Le Bon has become institutionalised within police training. This in turn is leading to a potentially counter‐productive reliance on the undifferentiated use of force when policing crowds.

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The study illustrates that such training outcomes not only are counter to the recent developments in evidence, theory and policy but also undermine the police's ability to develop more efficient and effective approaches to policing crowds.

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The study provides a systematic review of public order training which demonstrates how crowd theory is used as a rationale and justification for the use of tactics based on undifferentiated force. It makes suggestions for improving police training so that updates in policy and theory can be translated into operational practice.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 33 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 1 December 2003

Clifford Stott

This study is concerned with understanding the nature of police stereotypes and expectations and their potential role in shaping the intergroup dynamics of “hooliganism” involving…

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This study is concerned with understanding the nature of police stereotypes and expectations and their potential role in shaping the intergroup dynamics of “hooliganism” involving England fans during the football European Championships in Belgium and Holland (Euro 2000). The paper uses a questionnaire survey of Belgian Gendarmerie officers to explore the extent to which England fans were seen as a dangerous social category who's normative behaviours were likely to be interpreted as a manifestation of hooliganism and therefore as posing a relatively uniform threat to “public order”. In so doing the study provides evidence to support a contention that the Gendarmerie at Euro 2000 held a view of England fans that was consistent with the use of relatively indiscriminate coercive force. The implications of the analysis for understanding the nature of public order policing, its role in shaping “public disorder” in football contexts and the need for interactive and historical studies of crowd events are discussed.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 26 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 1 December 2004

Stephen Reicher, Clifford Stott, Patrick Cronin and Otto Adang

This paper uses recent developments in crowd psychology as the basis for developing new guidelines for public order policing. Argues that the classical view of all crowd members…

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This paper uses recent developments in crowd psychology as the basis for developing new guidelines for public order policing. Argues that the classical view of all crowd members as being inherently irrational and suggestible, and therefore potentially violent, is both wrong and potentially dangerous. It can lead to policing strategies that respond to the violence of some in the crowd by clamping down on all members, and therefore lead all members to perceive the police as hostile and illegitimate. In such conditions, even those who were initially opposed to violence may come to side with more conflictual crowd members and hence contribute to an escalation in the level and scope of collective conflict. This paper argues that police officers need to concentrate on understanding the collective identities, priorities and intentions of different groups in the crowd and give the same priority to facilitating the lawful intentions of some groups as to controlling the unlawful intentions of others.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 27 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 23 November 2012

Martin Saunders and Chris Stott

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent trends in anti‐money laundering enforcement by UK regulatory authorities and the UK's response to recent EU anti‐money laundering…

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent trends in anti‐money laundering enforcement by UK regulatory authorities and the UK's response to recent EU anti‐money laundering regulatory reform proposals.

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The paper describes HM Treasury's review of the UK's “Money Laundering Regulations 2007,” recent enforcement actions taken by the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading, and the UK Government's response to recent proposed revisions to the EU's Third Money Laundering Directive.

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The paper finds that taking action for breaches of anti‐money laundering regulations remains high on the financial crime agenda of UK supervisory authorities. The UK argues against greater harmonization between anti‐money laundering and counter‐terrorism financial measures employed by the member states, believing enforcement powers should remain within member states.

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The paper provides expert guidance from experienced financial services lawyers.

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Publication date: 7 September 2012

Martin Saunders and Chris Stott

The aim is to explain the meaning of a May 2012 High Court decision and Financial Services Authority fine and their importance for money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) and…

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The aim is to explain the meaning of a May 2012 High Court decision and Financial Services Authority fine and their importance for money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) and those who oversee anti‐money laundering (AML) controls.

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The paper explains: a High Court decision rejecting a customer's claims for damages and upholding an MLRO's and a bank's refusal to execute a customer's payment instructions when they had genuine suspicions in relation to proposed transactions; and a relatively high financial penalty the FSA imposed on an MLRO who failed to identify due diligence shortcomings during his checks of customer files, to adequately review AML systems and controls, or to revise training procedures to address shortcomings he identified.

Findings

Both decisions provide useful reminders of the range of criminal, civil and regulatory liabilities that financial institutions and their employees can face if they do not follow proper AML procedures.

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The paper provides practical guidance from experienced financial services lawyers.

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Journal of Investment Compliance, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1528-5812

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Publication date: 23 August 2011

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 34 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 1 November 1901

In a recent speech LORD ROSEBERY charged the people of this country with possessing, to an inordinate extent, the fatal gift of complacency, and he observed that the nation which…

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In a recent speech LORD ROSEBERY charged the people of this country with possessing, to an inordinate extent, the fatal gift of complacency, and he observed that the nation which is not progressive is retrogressive. “Rest and be thankful,” said LORD ROSEBERY, is a motto which spells decay, and those who have any experience of the methods of the manufacturers of the country will admit that this seemingly severe impeachment is by no means unfounded or uncalled‐for. Industries, of which at one time the English were masters, are now gradually falling into other hands. The workers of other lands are successfully competing with our own, and yet, in spite of this condition of our mercantile affairs, the spirit of complacency is rampant. The sons are content to continue in the footsteps of the fathers, oblivious of the fact that time and seasons do not stand still and that they may be overwhelmed by the advancing flood of competition. The trade conservatism which was in the past opposed to the introduction of the steam‐engine, the power‐loom, and other mechanical appliances, is still responsible for the extreme slowness with which English firms appreciate the necessity for such innovations in the conduct of their business as would place them in a position to hold their own in the markets of the world. In respect to the protection of pure food production Great Britain and the British manufacturers are still a long way behind. Although the Sale of Food and Drugs Act of 1875 was one of the first Acts passed in any country to prevent the sale of adulterated food and drink, its machinery is cumbrous, and the subsequent Amendment Acts have not added materially to its efficiency; with the result that the Adulteration Acts do not compare favourably with those of many other countries. The spirit of complacency in regard to food products has affected alike the producer and the distributor, and the result is that in many instances there is no adequate inducement to produce anything but a mediocre article—such an article, in fact, as only escapes condemnation because of the faulty construction of the machinery of the law.

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British Food Journal, vol. 3 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 July 1966

IF we count the University of Strathclyde School of Librarianship as a “new” school—rather than simply an old school transferred from a College of Commerce to a university—then…

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IF we count the University of Strathclyde School of Librarianship as a “new” school—rather than simply an old school transferred from a College of Commerce to a university—then four “new” schools were established between 1963 and 1964, three of the four in universities and the other closely linked with a university, though remaining independent. All four schools have their special features but I consider the more significant of Belfast's features to be its right, from the outset, to conduct all its own examinations for graduates and non‐graduates. Queen's was also the first British university to provide non‐graduates with courses in librarianship. (Strathclyde is the second.) All successful students are eligible for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians (ALA) after they have completed the prescribed period of practical experience.

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New Library World, vol. 68 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 May 1958

We cannot immediately recall who it was that wrote of the pessimist, one of whose main regrets was that there was “nothing to eat but food ”, but it seems more than possible that…

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We cannot immediately recall who it was that wrote of the pessimist, one of whose main regrets was that there was “nothing to eat but food ”, but it seems more than possible that there are still a number of people who feel this way when they are sitting down to their meals, because they are so acutely obsessed with the fear that what they are about to eat, or are tempted to eat, will do things to their weight, or to their figure. Every week our less responsible dailies, and the many monthly and weekly journals that cater for the housewife, and for the wants and interests of the feminine world in general, feature articles on the art of slimming, giving advice on how so to regulate diet and habits as to enable Venus‐like figures and lissome bodies to be acquired and preserved for all‐agers. And indeed, there is nothing wrong with the idea, but we fear that, like so many things that may be essentially good and proper, it has become more or less of a racket, gathering momentum from time to time from the stupid demands of the arbiters of feminine fashion, and fed by the nutritional ignorance of the would‐be slim, as well as sometimes, we fear, by the glib but imperfect knowledge of those who would guide and advise.

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British Food Journal, vol. 60 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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