Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and VancouverThis book examines the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices with poor and marginalized communities through an examination of skid-row policing in three cities - Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver. It describes skid row policing as a political process, in which police are regularly called upon to negotiate often-conflicting sets of demands. Examining a broad spectrum of police procedures and community responses, the author reconceptualises the police as political actors who 'negotiate demands' of different constituencies. How the police meet these demands - through incident- and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work, and knowledge work - are shown to be a product of the civic environment in which they operate and of the 'moral-economic' forces that shape public discourse. |
Contents
Shooting Up on Adam Smiths Grave | 3 |
Inclusion Exclusion and the Policing of the Skids | 9 |
Skid Row under Ordoliberalism | 38 |
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