Policing Space : Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1996.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Territoriality and the Police; 2. The Setting and the Research; 3. The Law and Police Territoriality; 4. The Bureaucratic Ordering of Police Territoriality; 5. Adventure/Machismo and the Attempted Conquest of Space; 6. Safety and Police Territoriality; 7. Competence in Police Territoriality; 8. The Morality of Police Territoriality; 9. Making and Marking Space with the LAPD; Notes; Index.