Policing integration
Subtitle: the sociology of police coordination work
By: Chris Giacomantonio
Series: Transnational crime, crime control and security
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781137473745
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Police administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Law enforcement; Crime prevention; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Local
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Investigating Police Coordination2. The Organization and Integration of Anglo-American Policing3. The Contested District: Lower Mainland Police Work in Context4. Narratives of Change5. A Typology of Police Organizational Boundaries6. The Dynamics of Inter-unit Police Coordination7. A Problem of Governance: The Importance of Understanding Police Coordination.