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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457382803321

Autore

Herbert Steven Kelly <1959->

Titolo

Policing space [[electronic resource] ] : territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department / / Steve Herbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8769-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

363.2/09794/94

363.20979494

Soggetti

Human territoriality - California - Los Angeles

Police power - California - Los Angeles

Police - California - Los Angeles

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at play in how the police define and control territory, how they make and mark space.  A