Policing the Segregated City: Redistricting and the Spatial Organization of Police Work
Başlık:
Policing the Segregated City: Redistricting and the Spatial Organization of Police Work
Yazar:
Gordon, Daanika B., author.
ISBN:
9780438074552
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (143 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Pamela E. Oliver Committee members: Keith Findley; Sida Liu; Myra Marx Ferree; Michael A. Massoglia.
Özet:
This dissertation investigates the relationships between racial segregation and policing practices. I ask, how do the police respond to existing inequalities in urban space and how do they further shape them? I explore these questions through the case of an urban police department's redistricting reform. This reform aligned police district boundaries with segregation boundaries, enabling divergences in policing strategies across districts. I describe the logic and consequences of the redistricting through a multi-method approach that includes analysis of public documents, in-depth interviews with decision-makers and stakeholders, one year of ethnographic observation of police work in two of the most transformed districts, and longitudinal analysis of calls for service data.
Chapter one describes the motivations for the redistricting and explores facets of its impact through analysis of district-level special initiatives. In tracing the pathways from the logic of the reform to policing practices in its aftermath, I highlight the role that geographic boundaries play in translating symbolic boundaries into social boundaries. Chapter two describes the relationship between the redistricting and district-level community policing initiatives. I find that community policing, in this case, was only partially and contingently institutionalized. Initiatives also experienced different degrees of impact in districts characterized by divergent criminal problems and levels of trust in the police. Finally, chapter three describes differences in levels of service provision between districts. I connect ecological contexts to the perceptions and practices of patrol officers to identify the connections between the work environments constructed during the redistricting and the degree of police service that citizens receive.
This project analyzes the relationship between segregation and policing by looking across levels of social organization. I show how the macro-level context of the urban environment shapes the mezzo-level institutional arrangements of the police agency. In turn, institutional arrangements structure the micro-level phenomena of individual officers' experiences, practices, and subjective interpretations. I complement this attention to the pathways down from structural to institutional to interactional with a reciprocal examination of the pathways upward. I look to how the everyday activities and organizational arrangements of policing shape the landscape of the city. In doing so, I draw attention to the role of the police in the dynamic maintenance and production of segregation.
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School code: 0262
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