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100 _aWood, Dominic et al
245 _aThe importance of context and cognitive agency in developing police knowledge:
_bgoing beyond the police science discourse
260 _c2018
300 _ap.173-187.
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520 _aThis paper argues the current exposition of police knowledge through the discourses of police science and evidence-based policing (EBP) leads to exaggerated claims about what is, and can be, known in policing. This new orthodoxy underestimates the challenges of applying knowledge within culturally mediated police practice. The paper draws upon virtue epistemology, highlighting the role that cognitive agency plays in establishing knowledge claims. We challenge the assumption that it is possible to derive what�works�in all instances of certain aspects of policing and suggest that it would be more apt to speak about what�workedwithin a specific police context. - Reproduced.
650 _aPolice
773 _aPolice Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
906 _aPolice
999 _c506532
_d506532