Policing-networks: reassembling the cultural

This paper sets up and responds to a provocation: what would happen to our theories of policing if we were to dispense altogether with the concept of police culture? Using Latourian actor-network theory (ANT) as an entry point, the paper critically interrogates what counts as culture in a policing c...

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Autor principal: Campbell, Elaine (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Año: 2021, Volumen: 13, Páginas: 45-63
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Palabras clave:
Actor-network Theory
actor-network methodology
cartography of controversies
cultural purification
Latour
policing-networks
Police Culture
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Sumario:This paper sets up and responds to a provocation: what would happen to our theories of policing if we were to dispense altogether with the concept of police culture? Using Latourian actor-network theory (ANT) as an entry point, the paper critically interrogates what counts as culture in a policing context to expose the epistemological, methodological and ontological fragilities at the heart of the concept. This prepares the ground for rethinking `the cultural’ as an effect of heterogeneous agencies and practices of policing (policing-networks), rather than an informal `layer’ of knowhow/knowledge which informs the way policing is done. The paper concludes with a detailed discussion of ANT methodology to signal the difference a Latourian orientation can make to the research and analysis of `the cultural’.
Notas:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 56-63