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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.
"Some guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to
school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells
clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are
our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest
keepers." Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a
neglected group of American prisoners-the large and growing
population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive
interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep
charts the challenges that a life sentence poses-both to the
prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them.
Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft
lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose
challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too
Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive
sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment
policy.
"Some guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to
school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells
clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are
our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest
keepers." Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a
neglected group of American prisoners-the large and growing
population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive
interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep
charts the challenges that a life sentence poses-both to the
prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them.
Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft
lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose
challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too
Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive
sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment
policy.
Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced
community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by
strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers
entrusted with their protection.
That strategy seems to make sense, but in "Citizens, Cops, and
Power," Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever,
works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle
neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police
officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert
identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration
between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the
same time, he shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role
of community differ dramatically from those held by social
theorists.
Surprising and provocative, "Citizens, Cops, and Power" provides a
critical perspective not only on the future of community policing,
but on the nature of state-society relations as well.
Exploring the dynamic growth, change, and complexity of qualitative
research in human geography, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative
Geography brings together leading scholars in the field to examine
its history, assess the current state of the art, and project
future directions. "In its comprehensive coverage, accessible text,
and range of illustrative studies, past and present, the Handbook
has established an impressive new standard in presenting
qualitative methods to geographers." - David Ley, University of
British Columbia Moving beyond textbook rehearsals of standard
issues, the Handbook shows how empirical details of qualitative
research can be linked to the broader social, theoretical,
political, and policy concerns of qualitative geographers and the
communities within which they work. The book is organized into
three sections: Part I: Openings engages the history of qualitative
geography, and details the ways that research, and the researcher's
place within it, are conceptualized within broader academic,
political, and social currents. Part II: Encounters and
Collaborations describes the different strategies of inquiry that
qualitative geographers use, and the tools and techniques that
address the challenges that arise in the research process. Part
III: Making Sense explores the issues and processes of
interpretation, and the ways researchers communicate their results.
Retrospective as well as prospective in its approach, this is
geography's first peer-to-peer engagement with qualitative research
detailing how to conceive, carry out and communicate qualitative
research in the twenty-first century. Suitable for postgraduate
students, academics, and practitioners alike, this is the methods
resource for researchers in human geography.
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