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Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
Steve Herbert
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Description for Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
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 remarkable ethnography ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816628650
SKU
V9780816628650
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99-50
About Steve Herbert
Steve Herbert teaches criminal justice and geography at Indiana University.
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