This ethnography examines the everyday policing of the London Borough of Newham in relation to the London 2012 Olympics.

Gary Armstrong is Reader in the Department of Sociology at Brunel University, London, UK.

Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, and also Professor II at Telemark University College, Norway.

Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology at University Western Sydney University, Australia, Professor Emeritus at the University of Essex, UK, Visiting Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute.

1. Policing and Olympic Newham

2. Newham: A Brief History of 'the Gash'

3. Youth as an Olympic Threat

4. Contested Domains: Shopping and Enforcement

5. Pre-Event Police Planning: 'Table Top' Exercises

6. Policing the Boundaries: The Heart of the Olympics in Newham

7. The Opening Ceremony: Police Strategies

8. Stratford's Big Sports Day: The Games

9. Policing the Olympic Borough during Games Time

10. Post-Olympic Policing: Practice and Legacy

11. Post-Olympic Newham: A Postscript