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The matrix of care and control

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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:08 authored by Mike Stephens, Saul Becker
It is not that individuals fail to appreciate and perceive subtleties, nor to recognise interconnections; it is that in some areas of life we frequently prefer strong and clear messages. We form partial images of many types of activity, which seem to operate at times as a kind of social shorthand. These allow us to distil quickly what we perceive to be the essence of those activities. As far as the police are concerned, and with the image of the Dixon of Dock Green kind of bobby now fast receding from the public’s direct experience and consciousness, there is perhaps an understandable tendency to view the activities of the police as primarily a controlling set of functions.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

213-230

Pages

256.0

Book title

Police force, police service: care and control in Britain

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780333574843

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  • Education Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Saul Becker, Mike Stephens

Legacy Posted Date

2018-07-12

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