Journal of Organizational Ethnography: Volume 11 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Police encounters

Megan O'Neill, Mike Rowe, Sofie De Kimpe, Zeljko Karas

Police stops, suspicion and the influence of police department cultures: a look into the Belgian context

Inès Saudelli, Sofie De Kimpe, Jenneke Christiaens

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how suspicion that leads to a police stop is developed by police officers in Belgium, and the way in which police department culture…

Police stops in Germany – between legal rules and informal practices

Hartmut Aden, Alexander Bosch, Jan Fährmann, Roman Thurn

This paper analyzes micro-political strategies that police officers use during police stops, mostly based on their professional or personal life experience. Police stops take…

Suspicious minds and suspicioning: constructing suspicion during policework

Ross Hendy

This article explores officer use of suspicion before informal police-citizen encounters as a method to further understand police officer decision-making. There is a body of…

“Police spatial knowledge” – Aspects of spatial constitutions by the police

Eva Brauer, Tamara Dangelmaier, Daniela Hunold

The article presents research results of an ethnographic survey within the German police. The focus is on practices of spatial production and the functions of spaces.

Police interactions in post-colonial India: how particularistic accountability, legitimacy and tolerated illegality condition everyday policing in Delhi and Kerala

Ashwin Varghese

The paper aims to relocate discussions on police stops and police interactions from the Anglophone world to the particularistic context of the post-colonial state of India. The…

Deadly dialogues: The Magherini case and police brutalities in Italy

Vincenzo Scalia

This paper looks at police brutalities in Italy. In particular, the discussion focusses on the case of the death of Riccardo Magherini, who was stopped by the Corpo dei…

Police selectivity “on demand”: the role of organisational justice in promoting procedural justice

Sarah Van Praet

This paper presents the results of an action research with a Brussels’ police force. This research aimed to identify elements or mechanisms within police selectivity that put…