Taking Care of Business :Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation - Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business :Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation - Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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Taking 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780199687381
ISBN10 0199687382
Number Of Pages 310
Item Weight 524 g
Product Dimensions 148 x 222 x 23 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format hardback
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Taken with Bacon's insightful and personal field note extracts, the book makes for an engaging read ... he reports honestly on the views and opinions of the officers he engaged with over two years. * Harry Shapiro, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy *
Bacon'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 the reader to understand the management structure of covert policing. * Professor James Sheptycki, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. *
In conclusion, this book is both a very pleasurable read and a significant scholarly addition to the tiny literature on specialist drug detectives ... It is clearly a book that will be read by researchers and academics with an interest in the field, but I think it will also be of great interest to students, who are likely to find it accessible and thought provoking. * Charlie Lloyd, University of York (ANZ Journal of Criminology, 2017) *
This fine grained, witty and surprisingly mature work illustrates not only the world of detectives, but also the rich contours of the drug markets that they are tasked with policing. Ethnography rather than metrics enables us to unpack this intricate universe, and Bacon's study of specialist covert drug squads in 'Smallville' and 'Metropolis' allows us to understand the complexity of the relationship between enforcement and illicit markets. * Professor Dick Hobbs, Policing & Society *

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Author's Bio

Matthew Bacon is a Lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include police culture, criminal investigation, drug control policy and the informal economy.

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