Making Sense of Youth Crime

Download or read book Making Sense of Youth Crime written by Jacqueline E. Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative empirical study of policing in the United States and France draws on the authors' ten years of field work to contend that the police in both countries should be thought about as an amalgam of five distinct professional cultures or 'intelligence regimes'-each of which can be found in any given police department in both the United States and France. In particular, we contend that what police do as knowledge workers and how they make sense of the social problems such as collective offending by juveniles varies with the professional subcommunities or 'intelligence regimes' in which their particular knowledge work is embedded. The same problem can be looked at in fundamentally different ways even within a single police department, depending on the intelligence regime through which the problem is refracted.