POLICING, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE MARKET STATE

This paper investigates trends in the reform agenda for Victoria Polic e. These include the implementation of the concept of user pays, outso urcing of 'non-core' services, expanded privatisation, corporate spons orship, customer service, flatter management structures fixed term con tracts for senior officers, and performance targets - changes identifi ed with 1990s economic rationalism, managerialism and the market model . With implications for similar trends internationally, the paper unpa cks what these reforms mean in terms of relationships between the comm unity and police (including services, management, and organisation). i t raises questions related to what constitutes core tasks of the state , state accountability to the public, public safety: the social costs of economic rationalism, managerialism and the microeconomic reforms o f the 1990s. These signal shifts in governance, and changes in the rel ationship between the citizen and the state.