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Liquid modernity and the police ; thinking about information flows in police organisation

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  • James Sheptycki

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This paper focuses attention on the police métier in order to understand the internal organisation of the typical multifunctional urban police service in the UK, Europe and North America. It shows how the modern police organisation has been fundamentally imagined, even if often only at a subconscious level, as the embodiment of machine-like political-legal rationality. The paper observes how ‘liquid modernity’ has affected machine-thinking in police organisation. Understanding what is going on inside ‘the police’ is crucial to making sense of how they configure in broader networks of security governance

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  • James Sheptycki, 2017. "Liquid modernity and the police ; thinking about information flows in police organisation," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 286-302, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:18:y:2017:i:3:p:286-302
    DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2017.1313734
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