Liquid modernity and the police métier; thinking about information flows in police organisation. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sheptycki, James
• Is Part Of: Global crime. Volume 18:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 286
• Page End: 302
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: CompStat -- police métier -- machine model -- intelligence -- information; Transnational crime -- Periodicals; Organized crime -- Periodicals; 364.106072
• DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2017.1313734
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-0572

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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