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ABSTRACT
The current article reports findings from a research project on partnership policing in Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate how partnership policing strategies translate into social action. Consideration is given to the ways in which police officers and city employees produce chains of administrative tasks as they navigate their institutional environment and strive to produce legitimacy for partnership policing. More broadly, the findings suggest that the inner mechanisms of a partnership approach to policing are shaped by the self-referential (Eigendynamik) character of administration. The article discusses implications for partnership policing and for the broader literature on policing.
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Notes
1 Partnership policing involves local partnership between public bodies (i.e. police, local authorities, and municipalities). As Delpeuch and Ross (Citation2020) note with respect to France, such efforts are analogous to the English terms ‘crime prevention partnerships’ and ‘the multi-agency approach’. This article excludes what in the scholarly literature is referred to as public-private, plural, or third-party policing.
2 The research was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Board.
3 Fika is a Swedish word that loosely translates into ‘a coffee break’, but in an organisational setting, it typically refers to a time for socialising and strengthening professional relationships.