Policing Space : Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herbert, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department.
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department
Human territoriality > California > Los Angeles.
Police power > California > Los Angeles.
Police > California > Los Angeles.
Territorialité humaine > Californie > Los Angeles.
Police > Pouvoirs > Californie > Los Angeles.
Human territoriality
Police
Police power
California > Los Angeles
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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