Policing space : territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department / Steve Herbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbert, Steven Kelly, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human territoriality--California--Los Angeles.

Human territoriality.

Police power--California--Los Angeles.

Police power.

Police--California--Los Angeles.

Police.

Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at play in how the police define and control territory, how they make and mark space. A

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.Territoriality and the Police; 2. The Setting and the Research; 3. The Law and Police Territoriality; 4. The Bureaucratic Ordering of Police Territoriality; 5. Adventure/Machismo and the Attempted Conquest of Space; 6. Safety and Police Territoriality; 7. Competence in Police Territoriality; 8. The Morality of Police Territoriality; 9. Making and Marking Space with the LAPD; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8769-2

OCLC:

614485203