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Interpreting Policework - Policy and Practice in Forms of Beat Policing (Hardcover)
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Interpreting Policework - Policy and Practice in Forms of Beat Policing (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing
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In the 1980s there existed wide and often acrimonious disagreement
over the purposes and objectives of police organizations, the ways
in which their activities were structured, and their relations with
the wider society. Interpreting policework requires a rounded
conception of policing, based on both a thorough critique of the
main theoretical trends in police sociology, and close familiarity
with actual patterns of policing, on the streets, in the stations,
and inside the police headquarters where key policies are
formulated. Originally published in 1987, the achievement of this
book is that it combines rigorous theoretical analysis with a
wealth of descriptive material drawn from first-hand observation of
policing and decision making at all levels, and thus relates
sociological theory to practice and political debate at the time.
The introduction provides a careful analysis of central theoretical
and political strands in police sociology, and proposes a new
general conception of policework. The authors go on to provide
vivid illustrations of this conception from the worlds of uniformed
unit beat patrols and resident beat officers, and from the fora in
which policy for operational practice is considered. A final
section draws the wider lessons of these concrete analyses for
sociological theory and for our understanding of past policy shifts
from one form of beatwork to another, and spells out the radical
implications of the study for the political debate on the future of
policing. Interpreting Policework thus had relevance to students
and researchers in police studies, sociology, public policy and the
law at the time and will still be of historical interest today. The
authors are experienced researchers, practised in investigating a
wide range of criminological and social control issues.
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