Making Sense of Youth Crime - A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France

"This comparative empirical study of policing in the United States and France draws on the authors' ten years of field work to contend that the police in both countries should be thought about as an amalgam of five distinct professional cultures or "intelligence regimes" - each of which can be found in any given police department in both the United States and France. In particular, it is contended that what police do as knowledge workers and how they make sense of the social problems such as collective offending by juveniles varies with the professional subcommunities or "intelligence regimes" in which their particular knowledge work is embedded. The same problem can be looked at in fundamentally different ways even within a single police department, depending on the intelligence regime through which the problem is refracted"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Our Methodology; 3. On the Notion of an Intelligence Regime; 4. How Similarities between French and American Intelligence Regimes Transcend Institutional Differences; 5. The Five Intelligence Regimes; 6. Tensions between Intelligence Regimes; 7. What Does Our Typology Have to Say about Intelligence-led Policing?; 8. Conclusion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thierry Delpeuch, Thierry (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Delpeuch, Delpeuch Thierry, Jacqueline E Ross, Jacqueline E. Ross, Jacqueline E. (University of Illinois Colleg Ross, Jacqueline E. (University of Illinois College of Law) Ross, Ross Jacqueline E.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009364287
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936428-7
• Seiten: 75
• Serie: Elements in Criminology
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, United States of America, USA, Criminal investigation and detection, Crime & criminology, Social research and statistics, Violent crimes