Rethinking the place of crime in police patrol: a re-reading of classic police ethnographies
Both in the policing literature and criminology more broadly, it is a taken-for-granted fact—an entrenched ‘truism’—that patrol policing has little to do with crime. This ‘truth’ is a product of fieldwork on the public police begun in the early-1950s. These works, thus, are of immense importance to...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 57, Heft: 4, Seiten: 867-884 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Both in the policing literature and criminology more broadly, it is a taken-for-granted fact—an entrenched ‘truism’—that patrol policing has little to do with crime. This ‘truth’ is a product of fieldwork on the public police begun in the early-1950s. These works, thus, are of immense importance to criminology. In this paper, I undertake a re-reading of several classic police ethnographies and argue that there is a disjuncture between what is claimed and revealed. These texts show that the patrol police appear to deal with a significant amount of what I call crime work, the minimization and marginalization of which I seek to make sense of. |
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ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azw028 |