Making Sense of Youth Crime: A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France

by Jacqueline E. Ross

This comparative empirical study of policing in the United States and France draws on the authors' ten years of field work to contend that the police in both countries should be thought about as an amalgam of five distinct professional cultures or 'intelligence regimes'-each of which can be found in any given police department in both the United States and France. In particular, we contend that what police do as knowledge workers and how they make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009364286
• ISBN13: 9781009364287
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"