Singing the same tune? International continuities and discontinuities in how police talk about using force

Weitere Versionen anzeigen (1)

This article focuses on a research project conducted in six jurisdictions: England, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Venezuela, and Brazil. These societies are very different ethnically, socially, politically, economically, historically and have wildly different levels of crime. Their policing a...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Waddington, Peter A. J. 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Adang, Otto 1956- (BeteiligteR) ; Baker, David (BeteiligteR) ; Birkbeck, Christopher (BeteiligteR) ; Feltes, Thomas 1951- (BeteiligteR) ; Gabaldón, Luis Gerardo 1949- (BeteiligteR) ; Machado, Eduardo Paes (BeteiligteR) ; Stenning, Philip C. (BeteiligteR)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2008
In:In: Crime, Law and Social Change 52(2008), 2, Seite 111-138
Online-Zugang: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:This article focuses on a research project conducted in six jurisdictions: England, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Venezuela, and Brazil. These societies are very different ethnically, socially, politically, economically, historically and have wildly different levels of crime. Their policing arrangements also differ significantly: how they are organised; how their officers are equipped and trained; what routine operating procedures they employ; whether they are armed; and much else besides. Most relevant for this research, they represent policing systems with wildly different levels of police shootings, Police in the two Latin American countries represented here have a justified reputation for the frequency with which they shoot people, whereas at the other extreme the police in England do not routinely carry firearms and rarely shoot anyone. To probe whether these differences are reflected in the way that officers talk about the use of force, police officers in these differe
DOI:10.1007/s10611-008-9176-7