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Police narrativity in the risk society

Lookup NU author(s): Emerita Professor Elaine Campbell

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Abstract

Interest in textual-discursive(1) forms of police practice has been boosted by Ericson's and Haggerty's influential thesis of the 'communication technologies' used by police organizations in the 'risk society' However, the thesis harbours certain theoretical lacunae, which became apparent in the author's empirical study of police decision-making processes. In particular, although it is supposed that police narrativity is rendered redundant in the 'risk society', the study finds that it flourishes and persists, even when explicitly proscribed and discouraged by police managers. A critical discourse analysis of police narratives suggests caution in accepting the totalizing imagery of the 'risk society' and all that it implies about the 'withering away' of policing's traditional place in the governance of social relations and social conflicts.


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Author(s): Campbell E

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology

Year: 2004

Volume: 44

Issue: 5

Pages: 695-714

ISSN (print): 0007-0955

ISSN (electronic): 1464-3529

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh032

DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azh032


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