Capital exchanges, security networks, and ‘user pays’ policing

This article draws on a modified Bourdieusian typology to explore capital exchanges between public police and buyers (users) in ‘user pays’ policing. Drawing on interviews and analysis of freedom of information disclosures in Ontario, Canada, we contribute to security network and ‘user pays’ policin...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lippert, Randy 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Walby, Kevin 1981- (VerfasserIn) ; Taylor, Palmer
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
Jahr: 2016, Band: 17, Heft: 2, Seiten: 18-33
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Capital exchange
Bourdieu, Pierre
User pays
Body capital
Networks,
Responsibilization
Public police
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Zusammenfassung:This article draws on a modified Bourdieusian typology to explore capital exchanges between public police and buyers (users) in ‘user pays’ policing. Drawing on interviews and analysis of freedom of information disclosures in Ontario, Canada, we contribute to security network and ‘user pays’ policing literatures by demonstrating thatuser types vary in the volumeof capital exchanged and by city/region and that this linkage can be understood as a two-way exchange of forms of capital rather than unidirectional ‘responsibilization.’ These exchanges primarily involve economic and body capital. We argue that problematization of user pays policing requires political capital to be exchanged. This represents public police’s failure to achieve symbolic capital due to the unskilled labour ‘user pays’ policing is found to entail. We conclude by identifying avenuesfor future network research revealed by our analysis.
ISSN:2332-886X