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Interpreting policework : policy and practice in forms of beat policing

Print Book, English, 1987
Allen & Unwin, London, 1987
xiii, 322 pages ; 23 cm
9780043630105, 9780043630112, 0043630103, 0043630111
14413958
Part I: Theories and methodologies
1. Shaping a structural lens
Part II: The unit beat system
2. Patrol report
3. Decoding the message
Part III: The resident beat system
4. Working the patch
5. A pattern emerges
Conclusion to parts II and III
Part IV: The policy system
Introduction to part IV
6. What do we mean by policy?
7. The system at work I: meetings
8. The system at work II: policy files
Part V: Conclusions
9. From the theory to the politics of policework
Includes indexes