Richard V Ericson (Richard Victor), Kevin D Haggerty

Policing the Risk Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this provocative new book, Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty contend that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organisations that operate based on a knowledge of risk. In turn, these institutions influence the ways that police officers think and act. A critical review of existing research reveals the need to study police interaction with institutions as well as individuals. These institutions are part of an emerging "risk society" where knowledge of risk is used to control danger. The authors examine different aspects of police involvement; the use of surveillance technologies, and the collection of data on securities, careers, and different social, ethnic, age, and gender groups. They conclude by looking at how police organisations have been forced to develop new communications rules and technologies to meet external demands for knowledge of risk. With this book, the authors revolutionise the study of policing, and their work will impact heavily on scholars in criminology, social theory, and communications as well as policing and the public.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780198265535
• ISBN-10: 0198265530
• Artikelnr.: 35655249

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Policing
1: Policing as Risk Communication
2: Policing, Risk, and Law
3: Community Policing and Risk Communications
II. The Risk Society
4: Risk Discourse
5: Risk Institutions
6: Risk and Social Change
III. Risks to Territories
7: Tracing Territories
8: Mobilizing Territories
9: Territorial Communities
IV. Risks to Securities, Careers, and Identities
10: Securities
11: Careers
12: Identities
V. Risks to Police Organization
13: Knowledge Risk Management
14: Communication Rules
15: Communication Formats
16: Communication Ideologies
Summary and Conclusions
References
Index