Policing Integration [electronic resource] : The Sociology of Police Coordination Work /
Giacomantonio, Chris.author.
This book critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies. Police work requires constant interaction between police forces and units within those forces, yet the process by which police work with one another is not well understood by sociologists or practitioners. At the same time, the increasing inter-dependence between police forces raises a wide set of questions about how police should act and how they can be held accountable when locally-based police officers work in or with multiple jurisdictions. This rearrangement of resources creates important issues of governance, which this book addresses through an inductive account of policing in practice. Policing Integration builds on extensive fieldwork in a multi-jurisdictional environment in Canada alongside a detailed review of ongoing research and debates. In doing so, this book presents important theoretical principles and empirical evidence on how and why police choose to work across boundaries or create barriers between one another. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Investigating Police Coordination -- Chapter 2. The Organization and Integration of Anglo-American Policing -- Chapter 3. The Contested District: Lower Mainland Police Work in Context -- Chapter 4. Narratives of Change -- Chapter 5. A Typology of Police Organizational Boundaries -- Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inter-unit Police Coordination -- Chapter This book critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies. Police work requires constant interaction between police forces and units within those forces, yet the process by which police work with one another is not well understood by sociologists or practitioners. At the same time, the increasing inter-dependence between police forces raises a wide set of questions about how police should act and how they can be held accountable when locally-based police officers work in or with multiple jurisdictions. This rearrangement of resources creates important issues of governance, which this book addresses through an inductive account of policing in practice. Policing Integration builds on extensive fieldwork in a multi-jurisdictional environment in Canada alongside a detailed review of ongoing research and debates. In doing so, this book presents important theoretical principles and empirical evidence on how and why police choose to work across boundaries or create barriers between one another. .
Police.
Organized crime.
Criminology.
Political science.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Policing.
Organized Crime.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Political Science.
Sociology, general.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.