The abstract police : an exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police
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- Yinthe Feys (UGent)
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- In this chapter, we explore the concept of the abstract police (Terpstra et al., The Police Journal: Theory, Practice, and Principles, 92(4), 339–359, 2019) in a Belgian context. We draw upon a project concerning police officers’ ethical decision-making processes, more precisely systematic social observations conducted in three Belgian local police forces, including informal conversations with police officers. The examples show that the contacts among police officers and between the police and the public are mainly personal and direct. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, negatively affects these relations in several ways. We discuss the causes of a more abstract police organisation in other countries and reflect to which extent these evolutions are also taking place in Belgium. We conclude that the decentralisation of the local police may be the main reason for the personal relations and that the ideal type of the abstract police could be seen as a dystopia (i.e. a scenario that the Belgian police may want to avoid).
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- Abstract police, Local police, Belgium, Decentralised, Abstractisation
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8737502
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- Feys, Yinthe. “The Abstract Police : An Exploration of the Concept in the Belgian Local Police.” Policing in Smart Societies : Reflections on the Abstract Police, edited by Antoinette Verhage et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 109–32, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_7.
- APA
- Feys, Y. (2022). The abstract police : an exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police. In A. Verhage, M. Easton, & S. De Kimpe (Eds.), Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police (pp. 109–132). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_7
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- Feys, Yinthe. 2022. “The Abstract Police : An Exploration of the Concept in the Belgian Local Police.” In Policing in Smart Societies : Reflections on the Abstract Police, edited by Antoinette Verhage, Marleen Easton, and Sofie De Kimpe, 109–32. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_7.
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- Feys, Yinthe. 2022. “The Abstract Police : An Exploration of the Concept in the Belgian Local Police.” In Policing in Smart Societies : Reflections on the Abstract Police, ed by. Antoinette Verhage, Marleen Easton, and Sofie De Kimpe, 109–132. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_7.
- Vancouver
- 1.Feys Y. The abstract police : an exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police. In: Verhage A, Easton M, De Kimpe S, editors. Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; 2022. p. 109–32.
- IEEE
- [1]Y. Feys, “The abstract police : an exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police,” in Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police, A. Verhage, M. Easton, and S. De Kimpe, Eds. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 109–132.
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abstract = {{In this chapter, we explore the concept of the abstract police (Terpstra et al., The Police Journal: Theory, Practice, and Principles, 92(4), 339–359, 2019) in a Belgian context. We draw upon a project concerning police officers’ ethical decision-making processes, more precisely systematic social observations conducted in three Belgian local police forces, including informal conversations with police officers. The examples show that the contacts among police officers and between the police and the public are mainly personal and direct. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, negatively affects these relations in several ways. We discuss the causes of a more abstract police organisation in other countries and reflect to which extent these evolutions are also taking place in Belgium. We conclude that the decentralisation of the local police may be the main reason for the personal relations and that the ideal type of the abstract police could be seen as a dystopia (i.e. a scenario that the Belgian police may want to avoid).}},
author = {{Feys, Yinthe}},
booktitle = {{Policing in smart societies : reflections on the abstract police}},
editor = {{Verhage, Antoinette and Easton, Marleen and De Kimpe, Sofie}},
isbn = {{9783030836849}},
issn = {{2730-535X}},
keywords = {{Abstract police,Local police,Belgium,Decentralised,Abstractisation}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{109--132}},
publisher = {{Palgrave Macmillan}},
series = {{Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies}},
title = {{The abstract police : an exploration of the concept in the Belgian local police}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_7}},
year = {{2022}},
}
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