期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2000
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：58-60
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：As is befitting a cultural studies scholar, Wilson wants to link various kinds of "cop knowledge" to social structure. Unfortunately, he does not distinguish between three kinds of knowledge: knowledge held by police, or "police knowledge," and knowledge others have of the police, or "knowledge about the police," and analytic frameworks used to organize police knowledge, "knowledge about police knowledge's." These are three distinctive kinds of knowledge, collapsed by his punning title which further confuses because it uses a slang term, "cop." His primary concern, so far as I can discern it, is the second type, knowledge others have of the police. But even here, he confuses the knowledge an audience might have after reading or seeing some presentation of knowledge about police, and theorized knowledge of an observer who sees, reads, or hears about policing. This confusion, between hypothetical content-based meaning and that which a reader takes from the text (as an analogue) constantly vexes cultural studies because the field has no method to discern these two kinds of meaning
