RT Article
T1 Cheats, threats and reflexivity: organizational narratives on policing organized and economic crime
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 1
SP 200
OP 217
A1 Vestby, Annette
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1788014286
AB Drawing on narrative criminology and sensemaking theory, this paper explores interpretive patterns in an interagency policing collaboration that targets ‘work-related crime’ (WRC). WRC is a policy term denoting organized crime and economic offences (i.e. tax evasion, benefits fraud, labour exploitation and immigration law offences) and is framed as a threat to the viability of the welfare state. While the concept signals an intent to coordinate across agencies, policing takes place within local and institutional contexts. How do agents in the police and collaborating agencies render the policy concept ‘work-related crime’ meaningful and actionable? The study articulates three organizational narratives explaining WRC as fundamental criminogenic change, as stability and as a reflexive product of the control apparatus.
K1 Narrative Criminology
K1 Sensemaking
K1 plural policing
K1 Economic crime
K1 Organized Crime
K1 Crimmigration
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab054