TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The Operational Policing of Domestic Violence in Singapore
JO  - International criminal justice review
A1  - Ganapathy, Narayanan
SP  - 179
EP  - 198
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
N2  - This article examines the formal processing of domestic violence as accomplished by institutionalized policing in Singapore. The description of the process through which domestic calls for assistance were shaped and translated into relevant categories for appropriating a particular police response was facilitated through the use of the participant observation method. The ethnographic fieldwork reported here, including observations of call screening in action, is an attempt to explicate the phenomenological grounds employed by organizational members to constitute calls as instances of categories for practical policing purposes. Theoretically, the data point to the need for a reconceptualization of the problem of policing domestic violence by emphasizing the point that the eventual institutional response be understood as a product of the relationship that exists between police subculture and structural conditions of policing unique to contemporary Singapore society.<p /> 
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SN  - 1057-5677
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1057567706295489
ID  - ref1
ER  -