Policing the 2012 London Olympics

Taylor & Francis

Policing the 2012 London OlympicsLegacy and Social Exclusion\nAuthor(s): Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Dick Hobbs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138013377, 978-1138013377\nSynopsis\nThe summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the worlds biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions are experienced directly by local host communities and publics. \n\nThis ethnography examines the everyday policing of the London Borough of Newham in relation to the London 2012 Olympics. It explains how police defined, monitored, prioritized, contained and investigated Olympic-related crime, and how Olympic-related policing connected to the policing of Newham. The authors examine how the threat of terrorism impacted on the everyday p.