The Paradox of Discretion: Customs and the Changing Occupational Identity of Canadian Border Officers

Côté-Boucher, Karine

doi:10.1093/bjc/azv023

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“…À l'instar d'autres études sur les agents du policing (Côté-Boucher, 2016 ;Sheptycki, 2005), le présent projet adopte le modèle d'enquête sociologique de l'induction analytique. Certains concepts tels que le pouvoir discrétionnaire, l'interception et la punition des automobilistes fautifs ont orienté la collecte de données empiriques.…”

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Pouvoir discrétionnaire, infractions routières et interventions policières

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Cet article adopte une conception perceptuelle du pouvoir discrétionnaire afin de comprendre le processus décisionnel des patrouilleurs dans le cadre de leurs activités de sécurité routière. Plus précisément, l’article relève les éléments pris en considération par les policiers lorsqu’ils décident d’intercepter les automobilistes qui commettent une infraction et, par la suite, de donner un constat d’infraction. Pour y arriver, 19 entretiens semi-directifs ont été réalisés auprès de patrouilleurs (n = 15) et directeurs de poste (n = 4). Les résultats montrent que les infractions graves mènent presque automatiquement à l’interception et l’émission d’un constat d’infraction. Lorsque les infractions entrent dans la zone de tolérance des policiers, que les policiers sont de mauvaise humeur et qu’ils vivent des contraintes de temps, le risque d’interception est révisé à la baisse. Une fois interceptés, les jeunes conducteurs et ceux ayant une mauvaise attitude sont plus souvent sanctionnés. Les policiers qui croient à l’efficacité du constat sont plus susceptibles d’en décerner. Enfin, les résultats indiquent que chaque décision est le résultat d’interactions entre différentes contraintes normatives liées au policier, à l’automobiliste et à son infraction, à l’environnement routier et à l’organisation policière.The discretionary power of police officers is examined as a way to understand their decision-making process when enforcing traffic safety rules and the factors involved in decisions to stop and discipline drivers who violate traffic safety rules are identified. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with patrol officers (n=15) and division chiefs (n=4). Results indicate that serious infringements almost automatically lead to a stop and a citation. Infringements that fall within the tolerance zone of police officers, police officers being in a bad mood, and time constraints are all associated with a lower risk of interception. Once stopped, young drivers and those with a bad attitude are more likely to be ticketed. Drivers are also more likely to receive a citation when police officers believe that the citation will have some effect. Finally, results suggest that each decision is the result of interactions between a combination of factors : various normative constraints held by the police officer, the nature of the driver and the infringement, the road environment, and the police organization.Este artículo adopta una concepción perceptual del poder discrecional, con el fin de entender el proceso decisional de los patrulleros, en el marco de sus actividades de seguridad vial. Más específicamente, el artículo pone en relieve los elementos tomados en cuenta por los policías cuando deciden interceptar a los automovilistas que cometen una infracción, y, luego, emitir una declaración de infracción. Para ello, se realizaron 19 entrevistas semi-directivas a patrulleros (n=15) y a jefes de policía (n=4). Los resultados muestran que las infracciones graves llevan, casi automáticamente, a la intercepción y a la ...

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Pouvoir discrétionnaire, infractions routières et interventions policières

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“…As some regulations are added and others removed or modified, as technologies are introduced and new border programs and priorities adopted, the breadth of knowledge required is vast and oft-changing (cf. Cote Boucher, 2015). Technological and organizational changes result in complexity with which customs officers often find difficult to cope.…”

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“…The policing of cross-border trade has undergone a veritable transformation in many countries (see Cote Boucher 2015, Chaflin 2007. However, customs officers have not only been at the receiving end of technological and organizational change (Cote-Boucher 2015, 52).…”

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Guarding the goods, producing the state: Analysis of narratives of customs officers

Kostic¹

2017

Glas Etnogr inst

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By focusing on narratives of customs officers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I examine how technological and organizational change of customs work influences governance and sovereignty of the state and how customs officers produced a specific imaginary of the state through their narratives. Supporting the contention that the transnational flow of goods and people restructures rather than undermines the state power, the Serbian and Bosnian cases reveal how technological and organizational change of customs work opened up new arenas for an expression of state sovereignty and new modes of governance. Furthermore, I analyze narratives about unauthorized actions, or shady business as customs officers call it, as a mechanism through which "the state" is discursively constructed.

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“…We believe that this offense is underestimated (it, of course, concerns its consequences) and this is precisely why it periodically faces the expediency of economic smuggling criminalizing in the practical scope (at least in 1 The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (the first protocol to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), 12 November 2012 // http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/80873/1/9789241505246_eng.pdf?ua=1&ua=1 ('FCTC Protocol'). 2 Strategy to counteract the illicit production and circulation of tobacco products for the period to 2021. Approved by the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, August 23, 2017, no 570-р // https://www.kmu.gov.ua/ua/npas/250225276.…”

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The Smuggling of Tobacco Products in Europe: Criminogenic Potential Capacity

Filippov

2019

Baltic Journal of Law &Amp; Politics

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The article sets out the results of a research of the criminogenic potential capacity of cigarette smuggling. The article provides an analysis of the criminological connotation of the criminogenic potential capacity of tobacco products smuggling and presents the characteristics of the Ukrainian peculiarities of this pan-European problem. The article presents a view of the dynamics and geographical features of countering cigarette smuggling in Europe, regarding the use of FRONTEX (European Border and Coast Guard Agency) and the national border authorities. The article conveys the nature and consequences of the interrelation of cigarette smuggling and cross-border crime, and it identifies the ways to counteract this phenomenon in the context of the harmonization of the policies of different countries and the EU in the relevant sphere. Additionally, the article covers the reasons for the legislative trends in the criminalization of the excisable goods smuggling.

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The Paradox of Discretion: Customs and the Changing Occupational Identity of Canadian Border Officers

Cited by 57 publications

References 38 publications

Pouvoir discrétionnaire, infractions routières et interventions policières

Pouvoir discrétionnaire, infractions routières et interventions policières

Guarding the goods, producing the state: Analysis of narratives of customs officers

The Smuggling of Tobacco Products in Europe: Criminogenic Potential Capacity

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