The Normative Ordering of Police Territoriality: Making and Marking Space with the Los Angeles Police Department Export

@article{citeulike:3649163, abstract = {The power of police officers to shape social action depends fundamentally on their capacity to control space. Without effective territorial strategies, police officers would be unable to create order in the majority of incidents they handle. This paper draws upon fieldwork in one patrol division of the Los Angeles Police Department to illustrate the significance of territoriality to police efforts at social control. The fieldwork illuminates the complex structuring influences on the processes by which officers define and seek to control the spaces they patrol. Legal and bureaucratic stipulations shape police territoriality, but so too do subcultural norms and values. I mobilize the concept of a "normative order"2014defined as a set of rules and practices that are structured around a central value2014as a means of capturing the mix of influences on police efforts at socio-spatial control. The discussion explains how six of those orders2014the law, bureaucratic control, adventure/machismo, safety, competence, and morality2014structure the territorial tactics of the LAPD.}, address = {Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University}, author = {Herbert, Steve}, citeulike-article-id = {3649163}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01767.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/119197239/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01767.x}, journal = {Annals of the Association of American Geographers}, keywords = {border, governmentality, urbanstudies}, number = {3}, pages = {567--582}, posted-at = {2008-11-21 14:48:45}, priority = {2}, title = {The Normative Ordering of Police Territoriality: Making and Marking Space with the Los Angeles Police Department}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01767.x}, volume = {86}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3649163 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3649163 N2 - The power of police officers to shape social action depends fundamentally on their capacity to control space. Without effective territorial strategies, police officers would be unable to create order in the majority of incidents they handle. This paper draws upon fieldwork in one patrol division of the Los Angeles Police Department to illustrate the significance of territoriality to police efforts at social control. The fieldwork illuminates the complex structuring influences on the processes by which officers define and seek to control the spaces they patrol. Legal and bureaucratic stipulations shape police territoriality, but so too do subcultural norms and values. I mobilize the concept of a "normative order"2014defined as a set of rules and practices that are structured around a central value2014as a means of capturing the mix of influences on police efforts at socio-spatial control. The discussion explains how six of those orders2014the law, bureaucratic control, adventure/machismo, safety, competence, and morality2014structure the territorial tactics of the LAPD. IS - 3 JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers AD - Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University EP - 582 TI - The Normative Ordering of Police Territoriality: Making and Marking Space with the Los Angeles Police Department VL - 86 SP - 567 KW - border KW - governmentality KW - urbanstudies AU - Herbert, Steve PY - 1996/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01767.x ER -