RT Article
T1 Police Narraritivy in the Risk Society
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 44
IS 5
SP 695
OP 714
A1 Campbell, Elaine
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640125493
AB Interest in textual-discursive1 forms of police practice has been boosted by Ericson's and Haggerty's influential thesis of the communication technologies' used by police organizations in the risk society'. However, the thesis harbours certain theoretical lacunae, which became apparent in the author's empirical study of police decision-making processes. In particular, although it is supposed that police narrativity is rendered redundant in the risk society', the study finds that it flourishes and persists, even when explicitly proscribed and discouraged by police managers. A critical discourse analysis of police narratives suggests caution in accepting the totalizing imagery of the risk society' and all that it implies about the withering away' of policing's traditional place in the governance of social relations and social conflicts
K1 Risikogesellschaft
K1 Governance
K1 Polizeiarbeit
K1 Polizeiliche Informationssysteme
K1 Diskursanalyse
K1 Sachverhaltsschilderung