Police Body-Worn Cameras and Structuration: a Silver-Plated Bullet and the Status Quo
Using the structuration paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to make sense of the implementation body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police Department (pseudonym), a mid-sized (< 300 sworn officers), city-level police agency in the USA. More specifically, it examines how BWCs integrated into t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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European journal on criminal policy and research
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 535-554 |
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| Summary: | Using the structuration paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to make sense of the implementation body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police Department (pseudonym), a mid-sized (< 300 sworn officers), city-level police agency in the USA. More specifically, it examines how BWCs integrated into the structuration processes across 4 key organizational contexts: training, reporting, invoking the law, and supervision. Drawing from 106 semi-structured interviews with officers across all levels of the department, a patrol survey (n = 101), and observations of 149 citizen encounters, this paper explores how organizational structures and practices were shaped over the 3.5 years since BWC adoption. It finds that BWCs were not a significant source of change as the technology seemed to have little impact on the already ingrained structures and practices. When change did occur, it was subtle or because change was mandated through policy. This study provides important implications for scholars and practitioners. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 552-554 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9869 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10610-022-09534-6 |