Criminal Investigation in Rural Areas : How Police Detectives Manage Remoteness and Resource Scarcity
This article addresses how rural environments characterized by remoteness impact the work of police detectives in their casework. It reports on an ethnographic study of two investigative departments (working on volume crime and domestic crime) located in Northern Sweden. Interviews (N=27) and partic...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-174118 2023-10-09T21:54:32+02:00 Criminal Investigation in Rural Areas : How Police Detectives Manage Remoteness and Resource Scarcity Rantatalo, Oscar Lindberg, Ola Hällgren, Markus 2021 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174118 https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa023 eng eng Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi Policing : A Journal of Policy and Practice, 1752-4512, 2021, 15:2, s. 1352-1366 orcid:0000-0003-1440-0470 orcid:0000-0003-3253-7243 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174118 doi:10.1093/police/paaa023 ISI:000733820000046 Scopus 2-s2.0-85142610158 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Work Sciences Arbetslivsstudier Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa023 2023-09-22T13:58:53Z This article addresses how rural environments characterized by remoteness impact the work of police detectives in their casework. It reports on an ethnographic study of two investigative departments (working on volume crime and domestic crime) located in Northern Sweden. Interviews (N=27) and participant observations (N =56) were conducted in order to examine how investigators approached and managed rural conditions in their daily work. Findings indicate that police investigations in rural areas are characterized by constraints, such as resource shortages, extended set-up times (due to travelling), and challenges in multitasking. The findings identify two main practices for investigating crime in such settings: 'rural investigation' that entails a decentralized approach in which investigators are embedded locally; and 'investigating the rural' that entails a distanced, centralized approach. This article discusses trade-offs and predicted outcomes in crime investigation and highlights how the urban/rural binary divide encompasses a paradoxical tension that investigators must manage continuously Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice |
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This article addresses how rural environments characterized by remoteness impact the work of police detectives in their casework. It reports on an ethnographic study of two investigative departments (working on volume crime and domestic crime) located in Northern Sweden. Interviews (N=27) and participant observations (N =56) were conducted in order to examine how investigators approached and managed rural conditions in their daily work. Findings indicate that police investigations in rural areas are characterized by constraints, such as resource shortages, extended set-up times (due to travelling), and challenges in multitasking. The findings identify two main practices for investigating crime in such settings: 'rural investigation' that entails a decentralized approach in which investigators are embedded locally; and 'investigating the rural' that entails a distanced, centralized approach. This article discusses trade-offs and predicted outcomes in crime investigation and highlights how the urban/rural binary divide encompasses a paradoxical tension that investigators must manage continuously |
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Criminal Investigation in Rural Areas : How Police Detectives Manage Remoteness and Resource Scarcity |
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Criminal Investigation in Rural Areas : How Police Detectives Manage Remoteness and Resource Scarcity |
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criminal investigation in rural areas : how police detectives manage remoteness and resource scarcity |
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Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen |
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