RT Article
T1 The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes
JF Policing and society
VO 32
IS 8
SP 947
OP 962
A1 Huey, Laura 1966-
A1 Ferguson, Lorna
A1 Koziarski, Jacek
A2 Ferguson, Lorna
A2 Koziarski, Jacek
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819843432
AB This paper explores how police bureaucracies, in their pursuit of greater accountability and management efficiencies, create what are intended to be rational data collection and use processes. However, these processes often produce unintended consequences: namely, behaviours, practices, and policies that confound an organisation’s goals. Drawing on Ritzer’s McDonaldization thesis and qualitative data from two Canadian police organisations, we argue that although police bureaucracies focus on maintaining efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control when it comes to their data processes, not only do inaccuracies occur, but they happen because an over-emphasis on rational processes can produce forms of irrationality.
K1 data use
K1 Data Collection
K1 Bureaucracy
K1 Police
K1 McDonaldization
DO 10.1080/10439463.2021.2007245