RT Article
T1 Understanding contradictory styles of policing
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 28
IS 3
SP 364
OP 381
A1 Tamayo Arboleda, Fernando León
A2 Valverde, Mariana 1955-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898842086
AB Policing scholars have shown that logics of police governance that appear mutually exclusive can coexist in the same space and time. Within police institutions, we can find more military-like mindsets alongside democratic rationalities. We here present a novel theoretical perspective for understanding such coexistence. Instead of attempting to identify police rationalities by reference to organizational/structural factors such as subcultures, training, or firearms and other equipment, we show that contradictory logics of policing can coexist within the same force by differentiating policing's targets by space, temporality, and identity. To do so, we use the idea of “chronotope” to identify and understand how police officers decide between conflicting rationalities of policing.
K1 Security
K1 Police
K1 Militarization
K1 crime governance
K1 Contradictory rationalities
DO 10.1177/13624806231196564