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Making Sense of Youth Crime: A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Making Sense of Youth Crime: A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jacqueline E. Ross
By (author) Thierry Delpeuch
SeriesElements in Criminology
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
ISBN/Barcode 9781009364287
ClassificationsDewey:363.25
Audience
General
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
NZ Release Date 31 March 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This comparative empirical study of policing in the United States and France draws on the authors' ten years of field work to contend that the police in both countries should be thought about as an amalgam of five distinct professional cultures or 'intelligence regimes'-each of which can be found in any given police department in both the United States and France. In particular, we contend that what police do as knowledge workers and how they make sense of the social problems such as collective offending by juveniles varies with the professional subcommunities or 'intelligence regimes' in which their particular knowledge work is embedded. The same problem can be looked at in fundamentally different ways even within a single police department, depending on the intelligence regime through which the problem is refracted.