Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police

Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police / Antoinette Verhage, Marleen Easton, Sofie De Kimpe, editors.

Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations. Demands for more efficiency and effectiveness test police organizations which are often resistant to change. This book uses the concept of the abstract police to describe the way in which police organizations have tried to adapt to these...

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Other Authors: Verhage, Antoinette, 1977- (Editor), Easton, Marleen (Editor), Kimpe, Sofie de (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave's critical policing studies.
Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Police > Technological innovations.
Law enforcement > Technological innovations.
Organizational change.
Law enforcement > Technological innovations
Organizational change
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Policing in Smart Cities: Reflections on the Abstract Police
  • Chapter 2: Abstract police organisations: distantiation, decontextualisation and digitalisation
  • Chapter 3: Reflections on the Abstract Police using the perspective of ideal-types
  • Chapter 4: Technology and Police Legitimacy
  • Chapter 5: Plural Policing and the Abstract Police
  • Chapter 6: Do we need discretion? Police decisions and the limits of the law
  • Chapter 7: The Abstract Police: An exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police.

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