Holding down the Fort : Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Policing in Rural Germany / by Aaron Bielejewski.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Bielejewski, Aaron., Author.

Series:

Social Science and Law (German Language) Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Law and the social sciences.

Crime Control and Security.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Local Subjects:

Crime Control and Security.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 418 p. 1 illus. in color. Textbook for German language market.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden Springer Nature 2023

Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical association of specific forms of “Western” policing with democratic society can be illustrated in the case of German integration: narratives of reform and essentially forging new democratic police agencies in the “new German states” stand at odds with much of the experience and statements of officers who continued to serve following (Re)Unification. Officers who present their works primarily in terms of their local responsibilities, expectations and more specifically to their unique and individual relationship and connection to their communities downplay the relevance of high-level policing policy. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of policing in a rural county in the German state of Brandenburg, this book explores the local nature of policing both in terms of how police officers imagine their communities to be and with reference to broader societal expectations and assumptions of what police, essentially, are, can effectively do, and should effectively do. About the author Aaron Bielejewski is a research associate at the Centre for Criminological Research Saxony. He studies cultural and interactionist aspects of police work and prison.

Contents:

Introduction

Our town: the sociology of policing communities

Setting the stage: setting, method, and perspective

Framing police encounters: the dramaturgy of authority

Violence and the police

Community tales: storytelling, experience, and local knowledge

The police and community maintenance

Postscript: retrospective auto-ethnography.

Notes:

Doctoral Universität Kassel 2021.

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ISBN:

3-658-39773-X

OCLC:

1352972287