Can experience be evidence? Craft knowledge and evidence-based policing
Can experience be evidence? Craft knowledge and evidence-based policing
This article explores the use of evidence and other varieties of knowledge in police decision-making. It surveys official government policy, demonstrating that evidence-based policy-making is the dominant policy-making paradigm in the United Kingdom. It discusses the limits to social science knowledge in policy-making. The article explores four ideas associated with the notion of ‘experience’: occupational culture; institutional memory; local knowledge, and craft, drawing on data from four UK police forces. We discuss the limits to experiential knowledge and conclude that experience is crucial to evidence-based policing and decision-making because it is the key to weaving the varieties of knowledge together.
Evidence-based policy, evidence-based policing, craft, political knowledge, ‘experience’, and ‘focus groups’
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Fleming, Jenny
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Rhodes, R. A. W.
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January 2018
Fleming, Jenny
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Rhodes, R. A. W.
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Fleming, Jenny and Rhodes, R. A. W.
(2018)
Can experience be evidence? Craft knowledge and evidence-based policing.
Policy & Politics, 46 (1), .
(doi:10.1332/030557317X14957211514333).
Abstract
This article explores the use of evidence and other varieties of knowledge in police decision-making. It surveys official government policy, demonstrating that evidence-based policy-making is the dominant policy-making paradigm in the United Kingdom. It discusses the limits to social science knowledge in policy-making. The article explores four ideas associated with the notion of ‘experience’: occupational culture; institutional memory; local knowledge, and craft, drawing on data from four UK police forces. We discuss the limits to experiential knowledge and conclude that experience is crucial to evidence-based policing and decision-making because it is the key to weaving the varieties of knowledge together.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 May 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 June 2017
Published date: January 2018
Keywords:
Evidence-based policy, evidence-based policing, craft, political knowledge, ‘experience’, and ‘focus groups’
Organisations:
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, Politics & International Relations
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Local EPrints ID: 410675
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410675
ISSN: 0305-5736
PURE UUID: f8047bf0-7203-4d5c-978f-c9b609c009f3
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