Swatting police Paramilitarism: A comment on Kraska and Paulsen

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Policing & Society Pub Date : 1999-04-01 DOI:10.1080/10439463.1999.9964808

P. Waddington

引用次数: 25

Abstract

Kraska and Paulsen's ethnography of the Pleasantville SWAT team suggests a worrying blurring of the boundary between the police and military. However, this is more apparent than al, since many of the indicators of militarization turn out, on closer inspection, to be insubstantial and in crucial respects SWAT teams retain features consistent with the maintenance of non‐military methods of using force.

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抽打警察准军事主义:评克拉斯卡和保尔森

克拉斯卡和保尔森关于普莱森特警队的人种志表明，警察和军队之间的界限模糊令人担忧。然而，这比一切都更明显，因为许多军事化的指标，在仔细检查后，是不实质性的，在关键方面，特警队保留了与维持非军事使用武力方法一致的特征。

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Policing & Society CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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5.40

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7.40%

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期刊介绍： Policing & Society is widely acknowledged as the leading international academic journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located. This includes: • Social scientific investigations of police policy and activity • Legal and political analyses of police powers and governance • Management oriented research on aspects of police organisation Space is also devoted to the relationship between what the police do and the policing decisions and functions of communities, private sector organisations and other state agencies.