Symbolic policing: situating targeted police operations/‘crackdowns’ on street-level drug markets

The policing of local drug markets in England often takes the form of specific, high-profile, crackdown operations which themselves are mostly a generic, periodic response to particular criminality. Drawing on Innes’ (2004) concept of ‘control signals’ and Edelman’s (1985) notion of ‘symbolic policy...

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Main Author: Coomber, Ross (Author)
Contributors: Moyle, Leah ; Mahoney, Myesa Knox
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Policing and society
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-17
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Keywords:
Symbolic policing
community policing
Crack
Crackdown operations
Drug dealers
Drug markets
Heroin
Signal crimes

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