The Police Power

Dubber, Markus D.

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“…According to him, it targeted not the usual object of criminal law—the individual's will—but rather a sociological entity, a risk entity to be exact, also described as “cumulative.” And while happily using the term nuisance to describe a crime, he added another term, not used by other participants, taken straight from the field of urban planning and zoning: blight. Once more drawing on the powerful cultural resources of the broken‐windows school, and on the equally powerful, convergent legal tradition of preventive police powers (Dubber 2004), Lamer wrote,…”

Section: Nuisance As Crime: Broken‐windows Urban Sociology At the Supmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…National differences in law, however, should not be exaggerated. It is true that in the United States today it would be very difficult to criminalize any form of “communication” not associated with the specter of terrorism; but nevertheless, it has not proved impossible to use the criminal law against all manner of moral risks that may or may not turn into actual harms in the future (Dubber 2004).…”

Section: The City As An Ethical Machine: Hybrid Knowledges Of Urban Vmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Valverde

2005

Law Soc Rev

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Using some appellate courts' reviews of projects to maintain moral order in the city as the main source of data, this article shows that an analysis of legal knowledge production that (1) is dynamic and (2) refuses to treat people and texts as totally different entities, one studied by social scientists and the other studied by lawyers, can tell us much about such familiar but seldom theorized legal maneuvers as judicial review and constitutional challenges. Choosing to analyze the dynamics of knowledge processes is inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT), Bruno Latour's work in particular. This methodological choice is particularly appropriate because judicial review tends to avoid making judgments about the content of impugned laws or ordinances, focusing instead, as Latour does, on form and process. But insofar as legal processes in general privilege form and process to a greater or lesser degree, a more general argument is made about the appropriateness of using tools from ANT to study legal and quasi‐legal knowledge networks.

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Section: Nuisance As Crime: Broken‐windows Urban Sociology At the Supmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The City As An Ethical Machine: Hybrid Knowledges Of Urban Vmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Valverde

2005

Law Soc Rev

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“…Policing's preventive aims are not novel in and of themselves. Comprehensive aims to prevent and avert threats to the welfare of the community were shared by nascent police institutions in the Anglo-American (Dubber, 2005), as well as Nordic contexts (Ellefsen, 2021). However, the growing ideological and practical salience of the proactive paradigm (Hartmann, 2018;Hestehave, 2021;Husabø, 2013;Weisburd et al, 2019) warrants empirical attention to understand how a loadbearing ideal of crime prevention is understood and made actionable in policing.…”

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Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing

Vestby

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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Multi-agency partnerships and intelligence-led policing are among the proactive policing strategies used to manage and prevent crime outside the criminal justice process. Drawing on narrative criminology, this article studies the co-constitution of concrete proactive policing methods and the populations and crimes that they are directed at. Further, the article illuminates the variety of distinct approaches that are understood in the studied policing context as ‘preventive’, a term found to be applicable to any police strategy or method that does not involve investigation and is not aimed at building a criminal case for prosecution. Whereas crime prevention effects are considered desirable and achievable, at least in theory, the internal organisational aim to prevent prosecution exerts an influence on how crimes as well as the crime prevention mandate are made sense of and rendered actionable.

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“…We believe this is possible because of a change in legitimacy or the extent those in the profession are seen as engaging in appropriate and proper actions and practices (Suchman, 1995) and that such change can be communicated via mass media coverage in line with cultivation theory (Gerbner & Gross, 1976). The literature on police power (Dubber, 2005;Neocleous, 2000) discusses how police are given leeway to eliminate anything that might be a threat in their role of creating and maintaining public order. Legitimacy is the basis for symbolic power differences (Bourdieu, 1991;Lyons, Pek, & Wessel, 2017).…”

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Is policing becoming a tainted profession? Media, public perceptions, and implications

Chatterjee¹,

Ryan

2020

J Organ Behavior

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Summary Stigmatized professions are those where physical, social, and/or moral taints are applied. Stigma theorists hold that stigma is socially communicated and changes over time, but it is unclear if stigma content can be applied to those who are seen as powerful. Two studies examined how the impact of sociopolitical discourses on policing, a profession that carries legitimate power, on the tainting of the profession and distrust in policing. In an examination of archival news media clips on policing (N = 200), results show that media coverage over time (between 2011 and 2016) has used a more negative tone in discussing police–citizen interactions, and these findings varied by conservative versus liberal media. Importantly, across media sources, taints were ascribed to policing. In a second survey study, individuals directly ascribed taints to policing (N = 169). Relative to other jobs, policing was categorized as a pervasively stigmatized job (i.e., high frequency and strong potency of taints were applied). It was also found that those who discussed media stories tended to distrust police more. Implications for efforts to recruit, select, and train officers and to improve police–community relations are discussed; findings may also generalize to other public and community facing professions.

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The Police Power

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Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing

Is policing becoming a tainted profession? Media, public perceptions, and implications

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