| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Research |
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Research (Wiesbaden, Germany)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing - the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies - and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing - street-level officers - come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical association of specific forms of "Western" policing with democratic society can be illustrated in the case of German integration: narratives of reform and essentially forging new democratic police agencies in the "new German states" stand at odds with much of the experience and statements of officers who continued to serve following (Re)Unification. Officers who present their works primarily in terms of their local responsibilities, expectations and more specifically to their unique and individual relationship and connection to their communities downplay the relevance of high-level policing policy. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of policing in a rural county in the German state of Brandenburg, this book explores the local nature of policing both in terms of how police officers imagine their communities to be and with reference to broader societal expectations and assumptions of what police, essentially, are, can effectively do, and should effectively do. About the author Aaron Bielejewski is a research associate at the Centre for Criminological Research Saxony. He studies cultural and interactionist aspects of police work and prison. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2023). |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature - SpringerLink eBooks - Fully Open Access |
| Subject |
Community policing -- Germany.
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Community policing
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Germany
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| Other Form: |
Original 3658397721 9783658397722 (OCoLC)1347429284 |
| ISBN |
9783658397739 electronic book |
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365839773X electronic book |
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3658397721 |
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9783658397722 |
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