RT Article
T1 “You Don’t Need 55 Forms That Say the Same Thing”: The Burden on Police to Produce Extra-Institutional Knowledge
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 12
SP 3155
OP 3181
A1 Huey, Laura 1966-
A2 Ricciardelli, Rose 1979-
A2 Ferguson, Lorna
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1907407642
AB Central to the police role and function are the inter- and extra-institutional demands for “knowledge” on crime and frontline policing. However, this subject has failed to generate the required empirical attention. The current study thus draws on Ericson and Haggerty’s conceptualization of police as “knowledge workers” to reveal the extent to which knowledge production for other institutions remains salient and, as a latent function, burdens policing. To do so, we employ results from the analysis of two ethnographic studies of police paperwork. Results revealed significant extra-institutional information needs that have considerable effects on police work with seemingly little use-value, and a consensus that much of police paperwork represents a misplaced burden due to repetition. We conclude with a critical discussion on the policy implications of these findings.
K1 policing the risk society
K1 knowledge work
K1 paperwork
K1 Policing
DO 10.1177/00111287221134045