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Taking Care of Business - Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation (Hardcover)
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Taking Care of Business - Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement
and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical
study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork
undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English
police services. It fills a significant gap in criminological
literature by providing a timely and thought-provoking ethnography
of detective culture, investigative practice, and drug law
enforcement. Drawing on data collected from over five hundred hours
of direct observation of ordinary police work, both on and off the
streets, the chapters are skilfully interwoven with fieldnotes,
informal conversations, interviews and analysis of official
documents. Taken together, they explore how police officers
perceive the drug world and their role in it, translate policy from
its written form into action, and utilise intelligence-led policing
strategies to instigate covert operations and make cases. There is
in-depth examination of the everyday realities of the 'war on
drugs', alongside the associated working rules, tacit
understandings and underlying assumptions that operate behind the
public face of police organizations. The book also critically
examines the most pertinent legislative initiatives, organizational
reforms, and shifts in thinking concerning the values, objectives
and norms of policing that have occurred over recent decades,
which, between them, have contributed to significant changes in the
ways that detectives are trained and investigations are controlled
and carried out. With highly salient insights regarding operational
policing and drug control policy in the current social, economic
and political climate, Taking Care of Business is a compelling and
important work on contemporary criminal investigation and the
policing of drugs. It will be of interest to scholars of
criminology, sociology, law, and policy studies, especially those
researching and studying policing, regulation, surveillance, drug
control policy and the informal economy, as well as policymakers,
police practitioners, and criminal justice professionals.
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