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Police Unlimited - Policing, Migrants, and the Values of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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Police Unlimited - Policing, Migrants, and the Values of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Police Unlimited is centred on the controversial idea that police
forces are a focal point for conflict in modern society. Instead of
emphasising the socially integrative function of police forces, the
book links to a conflict model concerned with its socially divisive
effects. Throughout the book, the consequences of this social
division are discussed, using a detailed ethnographic study of the
Dutch police as a starting point, and extending the analysis out to
look at the global situation. The book is based on a five year
ethnography exploring police discrimination in the Dutch police. It
examines cases of conflict, both inside and outside the police
station, thus covering interethnic tensions at work as well as
hostility towards migrants observed while joining officers on
patrol. The cases are discussed in light of the corroding public
character of Dutch policing and the risks involved in terms of
discrimination, and the arbitrary, or even privatized, use of
power. Signalling an increased blurring of the private and public
spheres in policing, the book warns of an "unlimited" police
service that is no longer constrained by the public contours that
delineate a legal bureaucracy. To develop a police anthropology,
the ethnographic materials are consistently compared with other
police ethnographies in the "global north" and "global south". This
comparative analysis points out that the demise of bureaucracy
makes it increasingly difficult for police organizations across the
globe to exclude politics, particularism and populism from their
operations. Police Unlimited addresses the curious position of
police organizations in the 21st century through the lens of a
police anthropology concerned with deep-seated police
discrimination across the world. In an age in which bureaucracy is
considered to be the social evil of our time, Police Unlimited
offers a controversial message: it is exactly the dehumanized and
impersonal nature of bureaucracy that transforms policing into a
neutral and fair practice.
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