Policing Space - Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department (Paperback)

Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at play in how the police define and control territory, how they make and mark space. A remarkable ethnography of a powerful police department, underscored throughout with telling on-the-scene vignettes, this book is also an unusually intensive analysis of the exercise of territorial power-and of territoriality as a key component of police power. Unique in its application of fieldwork and theory to this complex subject, it should prove valuable to readers in urban and political geography, urban and political sociology, and criminology, as well as those who wonder about the workings of the LAPD.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	November 1996
Authors:	Steve Herbert
Dimensions:	229 x 149 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-2865-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services
LSN:	0-8166-2865-3
Barcode:	9780816628650

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