{"id":29230,"date":"2023-01-12T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/asfaleia-kai-astynomefsi-se-synthikes-polosis-triantafyllos-karatrantos\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:07:04","slug":"asfaleia-kai-astynomefsi-se-synthikes-polosis-triantafyllos-karatrantos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/asfaleia-kai-astynomefsi-se-synthikes-polosis-triantafyllos-karatrantos\/","title":{"rendered":"Security and Policing in a Polarized Society &#8211; Triandafyllos Karatrantos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The broadening risks and threats have changed the very concept of security and therefore security policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>De facto security lies at the heart of today&#8217;s polarized societies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Violence in the post-pandemic era is associated with vague anti-systemic points of view influenced by conspiracy theories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The instrumentalization of security policies in a context of intense political and party political rivalry is a key aspect of the problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trust in the institutions charged with enforcing the law, and in the police in particular, has declined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It is typical that even models like the UK\u2019s Community Policing are reaching their limits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A critical parameter is the diffusion of violence, which tends to be present throughout our societies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Femicides, domestic violence and racist attacks shed light on violence as an aspect of a &#8216;superiority&#8217; culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The internet has become a key means of promoting violence, along with hate speech and intolerance discourse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The growing sense of insecurity has brought about a crisis of confidence in police effectiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective security policies presuppose a balance between security (and policing, in particular), on the one hand, and freedom and respect for rights, on the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Policy-brief-175-Karatrantos-EL.pdf\">here<\/a> the Policy brief by <strong>Triandafyllos Karatrantos<\/strong>, ELIAMEP Senior Research Fellow (in Greek).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broadening risks and threats have changed the very concept of security and therefore security policies. De facto security lies at the heart of today&#8217;s polarized societies. Violence in the post-pandemic era is associated with vague anti-systemic points of view influenced by conspiracy theories. The instrumentalization of security policies in a context of intense political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,102],"tags":[],"program":[20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45211,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions\/45211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}