Policing Drugs : Legitimacy, Practice, and the Self-Legitimacy of Drug Detectives

• Main Author: Debbaut, Steven (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
• Series: Drugs, crime and society.
• Subjects: Drug control.; Drug abuse > Prevention.; Drug traffic > Investigation.; Drugs;Drug policy;Belgium;Policing;Policing drugs;Criminalisation;Legitimacy;Drug control;Ethnographic;Michel Foucault; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003474951; 1003474950; 9781040355817; 1040355811; 9781040355831; 1040355838; 9781032756400
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (122 pages).

Exploring the complex interplay between drug law enforcement and self-legitimacy among police officers, this book, through ten months of ethnographic research in Belgian cities, examines how drug detectives justify their role within a challenging landscape of moral, social, and legal dilemmas.Chapte...