Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)making
Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)making
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合法化与抵抗：正在进行中的警察改革
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2010
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J. Tankebe
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J. Tankebe
警察权力的合法化进程问题以及警察组织内部的冲突和抵制事件尚未得到警察研究人员的充分重视。根据Barker（2001，2003）和Wrong（1995）的观点，本文认为，警察组织经常从事象征性的合法化活动，不仅针对公众（正如主流文献让我们相信的那样），而且针对他们自己，这种合法化的目的是培养对他们所行使的权威的严密性的自信心。有人进一步指出，与所有组织一样，警察组织的特点是冲突和抵制，这影响了他们的合法化努力，特别是在改革时期。以反腐败改革为例，我在本章的目的是探讨为什么和如何警察可能会抵制，以及如何抵抗与内生和外生的合法化企业。我的主要论点是，警察人员抵制改革的原因与改革本身的必要性或这些改革可能对个人利益造成的威胁没有太大关系;相反，抵制的形式是“谴责反对者”，源于警察人员通常认为反腐败措施的不一致和歧视性执法。我将确定和讨论非正式的社会控制规范和警察的自由裁量权作为最有价值的工具的阻力。
Issues of legitimation processes of police authority as well as instances of conflict and resistance within police organizations have yet to receive the full attention of police researchers. Following Barker (2001, 2003) and Wrong (1995), it is argued here that police organizations are regularly engaged in symbolic activities of legitimation directed not only towards the public (as the mainstream literature would have us believe), but also to themselves, and that the object of such legitimation is the cultivation of a sense of self-confidence in the Tightness of the authority they wield. It is further argued that, as with all organizations, police organizations are characterized by conflict and resistance which impinge on their legitimation efforts, especially during times of reform. Taking the example of anti-corruption reforms, my aim in this chapter is to explore why and how police officers may resist, and the ways in which resistance relates to endogenous and exogenous legitimation enterprises. My main thesis is that the reason for police officers’ resistance to reforms is not so much related to the need for reforms per se, or to the threats these reforms may carry for individual interests; instead, resistance takes the form of ‘condemning the condemners’, stemming from what officers often see as the inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement of anti-corruption measures. I shall identify and discuss informal social control norms and police discretionary powers as the most valuable tools of resistance.