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Clarendon Studies in Criminology Ser.: Taking Care of Business : Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation by Matthew Bacon (2016, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199687382

ISBN-139780199687381

eBay Product ID (ePID)228719010

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTaking Care of Business : Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation

SubjectCriminology

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science

AuthorMatthew Bacon

SeriesClarendon Studies in Criminology Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-936544

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsBacon's book is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in the field and will be usefully mined for insights by academic criminologists and many other types of scholar. What I found particularly good about this book is the meticulous ethnographic description of the workings of the drug detectives. The discussions about informant handling, the formalities of source and information evaluation and the descriptions of the intelligence process, help thereader to understand the management structure of covert policing.

Dewey Decimal363.450941

Table Of Content1. The Drug Detectives2. Policing the 'Drug Problem'3. The Illegal Drug Business4. Investigating the Investigators: Research Methodology5. The Police on Drugs6. Intelligence-Led Investigation7. Licensing Criminals8. Making Cases9. Detecting Change and the Future of Drug Law Enforcement

SynopsisTaking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English police services. It fills a significant gap in criminological literature by providing a timely and thought-provoking ethnography of detective culture, investigative practice, and drug law enforcement. Drawing on data collected from over five hundred hours of direct observation of ordinary police work, both on and off the streets, the chapters are skilfully interwoven with fieldnotes, informal conversations, interviews and analysis of official documents. Taken together, they explore how police officers perceive the drug world and their role in it, translate policy from its written form into action, and utilise intelligence-led policing strategies to instigate covert operations and make cases. There is in-depth examination of the everyday realities of the 'war on drugs', alongside the associated working rules, tacit understandings and underlying assumptions that operate behind the public face of police organizations. The book also critically examines the most pertinent legislative initiatives, organizational reforms, and shifts in thinking concerning the values, objectives and norms of policing that have occurred over recent decades, which, between them, have contributed to significant changes in the ways that detectives are trained and investigations are controlled and carried out. With highly salient insights regarding operational policing and drug control policy in the current social, economic and political climate, Taking Care of Business is a compelling and important work on contemporary criminal investigation and the policing of drugs. It will be of interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, law, and policy studies, especially those researching and studying policing, regulation, surveillance, drug control policy and the informal economy, as well as policymakers, police practitioners, and criminal justice professionals., Offers an insightful study of specialist detective units assigned to investigating drug offences, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken in two English police service areas, with in-depth analysis of the everyday realities of the 'war on drugs' and the underlying assumptions that operate beneath the presentational canopy of police organisations.

LC Classification NumberHV5840