myAIPM'Stay home you murderer!': populist policing of COVID-19 in Italy
The article finds that public attitudes, defined as policing from below, combined with policing from above by local administrators, produced a popular method of policing with citizens of Italy.
Scalia, V. | International Journal of Police Science & Management
This article discovers that in Italy, when the government enforced strict lockdown measures, people actively participated in policing their neighbourhoods; taking pictures of alleged violators and reporting them to the police, posting pictures of those violating the rules on social networks. Local administrators encouraged citizens to report lockdown violations and in the case of Rome, introduced an online reporting system. The article finds that public attitudes, defined as policing from below, combined with policing from above by local administrators, produced a populist policing of the lockdown.
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Scalia, V. (2021).'Stay home you murderer!': populist policing of COVID-19 in Italy. International Journal of Police Science & Management. DOI: 10.1177/14613557211014913
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