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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Toronto Pr
Publication date May 1, 1997
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780802079671
ISBN-10 0802079679
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.65 lbs.
Published in Canada
Original list price $34.95
Other format details university press
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The information age has left few of us untouched; individuals and institutions alike have undergone radical transformations in the race to get the most out of new technologies. The police are no exception. Policing the Risk Society introduces us to a shocking new vision of police work in which information gathered by the police with surveillance and data collection technologies is brokered to other institutions.

Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty contend that the police have become information brokers to institutions, such as insurance companies and health and welfare organizations whose operations are based on a knowledge of risk. These institutions influence the ways in which police officers think and act. A critical review of existing research reveals the need to study police interaction with institutions as well as with individuals. These institutions are part of an emerging 'risk society' where knowledge of risk is used to control danger. The authors examine different aspects of police involvement: the use of surveillance technologies and the collection of data on securities, careers, and different social, ethnic, age, and gender groups. They conclude by looking at how police organizations have been forced to bureaucratize and to continually adapt rules, formats, and technologies of communication to meet external demands for knowledge of risk.

With this book, Ericson and Haggerty revolutionize the study of policing and, for the first time, provide concrete evidence of the central tenets of risk society theory. Their work will have a major impact not only on scholars in criminology, social theory, and communications, but on policing as well.

Awarded the 1998 Herbert Jacob Book Prize by its Committee of the Law and Society Association, University of Massachusetts.



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9780802041210 | details & prices | 487 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $81.00
About: The information age has left few of us untouched; individuals and institutions alike have undergone radical transformations in the race to get the most out of new technologies.
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from Univ of Toronto Pr (May 1, 1997)
9780802079671 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $34.95
About: The information age has left few of us untouched; individuals and institutions alike have undergone radical transformations in the race to get the most out of new technologies.

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