This book critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies. Police work requires constant interaction between police forces and units within those forces, yet the process by which police work with one another is not well understood by sociologists or practitioners. At the same time, the increasing inter-dependence between police forces raises a wide set of questions about how police should act and how they can be held accountable when locally-based police officers work in or with multiple jurisdictions. This rearrangement of resources creates important issues of governance, which this book addresses through an inductive account of policing in practice.

Policing Integration builds on extensive fieldwork in a multi-jurisdictional environment in Canada alongside a detailed review of ongoing research and debates. In doing so, this book presents important theoretical principles and empirical evidence on how and why police choose to work across boundaries or create barriers between one another.

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RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK

Chris Giacomantonio

About the author

Chris Giacomantonio holds a DPhil in Criminology from the University of Oxford, UK. His research examines police governance, coordination, and tactics, with a focus on policy relevance. He is a qualitative and mixed methodologist and is particularly interested in the development of analytic qualitative methods for social research. Chris is currently an analyst at RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK.

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Book Title: Policing Integration
Book Subtitle: The Sociology of Police Coordination Work
Authors: Chris Giacomantonio
Series Title: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473752
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47374-5Published: 28 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47375-2Published: 20 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2947-4264
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4272
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 198
Topics: Policing, Organized Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political Science, Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Investigating Police Coordination

The Organization and Integration of Anglo-American Policing

The Contested District: Lower Mainland Police Work in Context

Narratives of Change

A Typology of Police Organizational Boundaries

The Dynamics of Inter-Unit Police Coordination

A Problem of Governance: The Importance of Understanding Police Coordination

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