| Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department Contributor(s): Herbert, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816628653 ISBN-13: 9780816628650 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $25.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Social Science |
| Dewey: 363.209 |
| LCCN: 96-20333 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.95" W x 9.04" (0.60 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at play in how the police define and control territory, how they make and mark space. A remarkable ethnography of a powerful police department, underscored throughout with telling on-the-scene vignettes, this book is also an unusually intensive analysis of the exercise of territorial power-and of territoriality as a key component of police power. Unique in its application of fieldwork and theory to this complex subject, it should prove valuable to readers in urban and political geography, urban and political sociology, and criminology, as well as those who wonder about the workings of the LAPD. |
