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Policing County LinesPolicing a Crisis?

Policing County Lines: Policing a Crisis? [When high-profile criminal justice phenomena came to the fore previously in the UK, the tendency for the police to engage in moral entrepreneurship was noted. Perhaps the most classic example is the ‘mugging scare’ of the 1970s, with Hall et al. (1978) masterfully documenting the role of the police in constructing this particular ‘crisis’ and how they were chiefly involved in setting, manipulating and extending the agenda surrounding the behaviours and people that became associated with it. However, police officers do not always sit in the driving seat, play an influential role in accelerating problems onto various agendas or steer the general direction of how they are constructed. As noted regarding fears of the arrival of crack cocaine to the UK in the late 1980s, the police found themselves in the awkward position of having to be seen to be responding to a social ill that had been identified and then amplified primarily by politicians and the media. Far from setting the agenda, the issue and its definition had slipped from their grasp, and they were faced with having to manage the expectations of what many expected they should be doing, despite the disparate realities of what their actual work regarding the policing of drugs continued to involve (see Dorn et al. 1991). Similarly, as the saga surrounding the first generation of ‘legal highs’ played out in the UK, officers typically learnt about them through external sources. Even after they fell under their remit, the police only began to become somewhat knowledgeable and interested in them (see Bacon 2016).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-54192-7
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107 –136
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10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_5
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[When high-profile criminal justice phenomena came to the fore previously in the UK, the tendency for the police to engage in moral entrepreneurship was noted. Perhaps the most classic example is the ‘mugging scare’ of the 1970s, with Hall et al. (1978) masterfully documenting the role of the police in constructing this particular ‘crisis’ and how they were chiefly involved in setting, manipulating and extending the agenda surrounding the behaviours and people that became associated with it. However, police officers do not always sit in the driving seat, play an influential role in accelerating problems onto various agendas or steer the general direction of how they are constructed. As noted regarding fears of the arrival of crack cocaine to the UK in the late 1980s, the police found themselves in the awkward position of having to be seen to be responding to a social ill that had been identified and then amplified primarily by politicians and the media. Far from setting the agenda, the issue and its definition had slipped from their grasp, and they were faced with having to manage the expectations of what many expected they should be doing, despite the disparate realities of what their actual work regarding the policing of drugs continued to involve (see Dorn et al. 1991). Similarly, as the saga surrounding the first generation of ‘legal highs’ played out in the UK, officers typically learnt about them through external sources. Even after they fell under their remit, the police only began to become somewhat knowledgeable and interested in them (see Bacon 2016).]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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