The abstract police : critical reflections on contemporary change in police organisations / Jan Terpstra, Renze Salet and Nicholas R. Fyfe, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Terpstra, Jan, editor.

Salet, Renze, editor.

Fyfe, Nicholas R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police administration--Europe.

Police administration.

Police--Technological innovations--Europe, Western.

Police.

Police--Social aspects--Europe, Western.

Organizational change--Europe.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The Hague, The Netherlands : Eleven, [2022].

Summary:

Over the past ten to fifteen years the police in many Western European countries have undergone a series of profound organisational changes. The police now appear to operate at a greater distance from citizens, they are more impersonal and decontextualized and have become more dependent on digitalised data systems.These changes are captured through the concept of the 'abstract police' and in this international collection of essays, leading policing scholars use this concept to make sense of contemporary changes to police organisations. Drawing on empirical evidence from a wide range of policing contexts, the individual chapters address major questions about current developments in policing: How are police organisations being shaped by the social, cultural, technological and political contexts in which they operate? How does the concept of the abstract police help understanding of the complex interplay between change and continuity in policing? Is the emergence of an abstract police the unintended outcome of processes of rationalization or a deliberate response to the new complexities of late modernity?

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Abstract Police, the Concept and Some Main Questions

2 The Abstract Police and Occupational Culture

3 Abstract Police and Police 'Professionalism': Contemporary Contradictions in British Policing

4 Reform and Emergent Police Practice in Scotland: In Search of Situated Policing

5 Community Policing in the Age of Abstract Police

6 Investigating at a Distance: Abstractness in Detective Work

7 Risks of Abstractness in Policing Honour-Based Violence

8 An Assessment of Police Technology and the 'Iron Cage' of the Abstract Police in the United States

9 Good Policing in Times of Abstract Police

10 Canadian Reflections on 'the Abstract Police'

11 'Virtual Policing', Trust and Legitimacy.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789051892086

905189208X

OCLC:

1373987279