“Keeping the Queen’s Peace”: A Sociomaterial Study of Police and Guns in a “Mangle of Risk”

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2024.100513
Amy L. Fraher , Shireen Kanji , Layla J. Branicki
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This sociomaterial study analyzes the ways that material agency plays a key role in the organizing dynamics of risky work through a study of the carrying and use of handguns by U.S. and U.K. police officers. Qualitative data (interviews and focus groups) were collected over a three-year period with police (N = 61) in New York, where officers routinely carry guns, and in London, where they typically do not. Police unanimously describe the agentic role non-human artefacts like guns play in: a) framing their cognitive processes, b) influencing their behaviour and decision-making processes, and c) impacting individuals around them. Expanding Pickering's theorization of a mangle of practice, we inductively develop a mangle of risk to explain how human and non-human agency become entangled in risky work contexts, where danger is real and time pressure is high. Understanding these dynamics requires analysis of both frontline police narratives and the prescribed organizational policies, procedures, and routines intended to contain risky situations. Findings reveal that the tools provided to police to do their job both frame and constrain operational capabilities, potentially escalating danger for police, suspects, and the community in a mangle of risk.

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"维护女王的和平":风险纠结 "中的警察与枪支的社会物质研究
这项社会物质研究通过对美国和英国警察携带和使用手枪的研究,分析了物质代理在风险工作的组织动态中发挥关键作用的方式。在为期三年的时间里,我们收集了定性数据(访谈和焦点小组),对象是纽约和伦敦的警察(人数分别为 61 人和 61 人),纽约的警察经常携带枪支,而伦敦的警察通常不携带枪支。警察们一致描述了枪支等非人类人工制品在以下方面扮演的代理人角色:a) 框定他们的认知过程;b) 影响他们的行为和决策过程;c) 影响他们周围的人。在扩展皮克林的实践混杂理论的基础上,我们归纳出风险混杂理论,以解释在危险真实存在、时间压力很大的工作环境中,人类和非人类机构是如何纠缠在一起的。要理解这些动态变化,需要对一线警察的叙述以及旨在控制风险情况的规定组织政策、程序和例行工作进行分析。研究结果表明,为警察提供的工作工具既限制了他们的行动能力,也制约了他们的行动能力,从而使警察、嫌疑人和社区在风险的混杂中面临更大的危险。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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