Symbolic policing
Situating targeted police operations/‘crackdowns’ on street-level drug markets
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12364210 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ross Coomber (0000-0002-8144-1996, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia), Leah Moyle (Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, autor de correspondencia), Myesa Knox Mahoney (Griffith University) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 29 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 1-17 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-05-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Policing & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1043-9463 • E-ISSN: 1477-2728 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10439463.2017.1323893 |
| OpenAlex | W2613535504 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 31 |
| Referencias citadas | 35 |
The policing of local drug markets in England often takes the form of specific, high-profile, crackdown operations which themselves are mostly a generic, periodic response to particular criminality. Drawing on Innes’ (2004) concept of ‘control signals’ and Edelman’s (1985) notion of ‘symbolic policy’, we argue that ‘symbolic policing’ relates to activity that is principally about achieving symbolic aims – ‘being seen to be doing something’ rather than preventing or solving crime. This article, focusing on police crackdown operations on heroin and crack cocaine ‘dealers’ in three English urban areas, considers the meanings of such operations, how they work, and in relation to local suppliers suggests they may in fact have counterproductive enforcement outcomes whilst still achieving symbolic objectives. It is concluded that generic crackdown operations at the level of local drug markets are unhelpfully insensitive to local conditions and that, in certain circumstances, they can be antithetical to more considered enforcement and public health aims
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When exploitation becomes local
A delinquência juvenil em perspectiva comparada
Dealing with privilege in a Nordic welfare state? How experiences with, and perceptions of, police, markets, and violence shape decision-making among affluent drug dealers
Drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street-level dealers in Nigeria
How a moral panic influenced the world’s first blanket ban on new psychoactive substances
Surveilled subjectivation
Practitioner perspectives on dealing with victimhood and offending in UK ‘County Lines’ drug supply investigations
“Pick up anything that moves”
What's a policy without trust? How the legacy of policing shapes experiences of drug decriminalization in British Columbia
Cannabis Use in an English Community
Amsterdam coffeeshops, victimisation, and police mobilization
That’s their brand, their business’
Therapeutic alignments
Be(a)ware of the dog
Prosecuting Overdose
Breaking supply chains’. A commentary on the new UK Drug Strategy
Mapping a moral panic
The Philippines’ antidrug campaign
Risk environment influences affecting cocaine market expansion within post-conflict Northern Ireland
The business is about knowing who to sell to”
Making the enforcement rehabilitative
Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre
Desistance from criminalisation
Tracing the Impact of Media, Cultural Narratives, and Social Perceptions on Australia's Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Communities
Young People Who Use Drugs Views Toward the Power and Authority of Police Officers
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing
No One Learned’
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
The Computer Said So
Policing and Symbolic Control
Drugs, Law Enforcement and Urban Marginalisation in Downtown Barcelona
Purity and Danger
Policing and the Condition of EnglandMemory, Politics and Culture
The Drugs/Violence Nexus
Changes in public order after the opening of a medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users
Outside the outsiders
Constructing the political spectacle
Signal Crimes
The Cost of Crackdowns
The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement
Impacts of intensified police activity on injection drug users
The impact of a police crackdown on a street drug scene
The ethics of reimbursing injecting drug users for public health research interviews
Fear of sense in the street heroin market
How the media do drugs
Concepts and Theory in Community Policing
Examining the nature and extent of public participation in neighbourhood policing
Police Crackdowns
The Narc's Game
Policing and public health
Earning a Score
The angered versus the endangered
Purity and Danger
Traffickers
Signal crimes and signal disorders
Policing and the Social
Crime, policing and social order
The narcs' game
| Obras citantes distintas | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 3,88 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 29 |