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Policing the risk society

The authors argue that the police are turning into information brokers for a range of institutions including insurance, health and social welfare organisations that are inexorably affecting the way the police function and think
Print Book, English, 1997
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997
xiv, 487 pages ; 24 cm
9780198265535, 9780198265771, 0198265530, 0198265778
38391100
I. POLICING ; II. THE RISK SOCIETY ; III. RISKS TO TERRITORIES ; IV. RISKS TO SECURITIES, CAREERS, AND IDENTITIES ; V. RISKS TO POLICE ORGANIZATION