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Article: Policing the Risk Society.(Review)
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- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 487 pp. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.
Early research defined the police as a problem profession; they were held to be suspicious, secretive, and formed the most isolated segment of the criminal justice "system." The research focus was downward; the cop's knowledge was personal and territorial, and his technology was his mouth, a stick, and a whistle (and, before radios, a telephone). To a considerable extent, ideas on policing remain encapsulated in a time warp shaped by the ethnographies of 20-30 years ago. There is still neglect of the wider organizational context of policing, ...
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