RT Article
T1 Old, new, borrowed and blue – shifts in modern policing
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 4
SP 931
OP 947
A1 Dahl, Johanne Yttri
A2 Fyfe, Nicholas R. 1962-
A2 Oppen, Helene
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1807586901
AB This article analyses ambiguity and complexity in proactive policing practices and identifies the paradox that despite the focus on increasing proactivity, police work remains strongly reactive. Drawing on a set of Norwegian case studies of policing in different domains, the article shows how under an overarching objective of ‘combating crime’, the distinctions between non-coercive (mainly proactive) forms of prevention or (mainly reactive) methods such as investigation or intelligence are seen as unimportant. This creates a demand for professionals working across different crime types, leading to a shift towards high policing in everyday life and tension between experts and generalists. Other, unintended consequences include a fragmentation of tasks and a more general and abstract way of policing. The result is pluralization and multiagency partnership strategies, where the police conduct high-policing tasks and external actors conduct low-policing tasks. These findings point to the emergence of new forms of hybrid of policing.
K1 Policing
K1 Police methods
K1 Proactive policing,
K1 Reactive policing
K1 Specialization
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab085