ABSTRACT Forensic medicine has traditionally been understood as constituting a tension between medical and legal roles: a care-custody paradox. Rather than reinforcing this paradox, however, in this paper I will draw upon a study of Healthcare Professionals working within police custody suites in England in order to show the ways that they coproduce [Jasanoff, S., 2004. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order. London: Routledge] their work with the aim of simultaneously meeting the requirements of both their police (for instance PACE codes) and healthcare (for instance the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Practice) responsibilities. Focusing on acts of ‘mundane care’ [Brownlie, J. and Spandler, H., 2018. Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one’s own. Sociology of health and illness, 40 (2), 256–269], the typification of detainees and the use of detention cells as risk management tools, I will show that rather than undergoing an existential crisis, Healthcare Professionals mobilise coproduced practices in order to perform their work successfully, thereby further enabling police and detention officers to achieve their custody objectives.

The comparative analysis of community policing in South Korea and the UK provides the basis for evaluating the strengths of the current theorising on this subject. The study revealed that participation in community policing was not a spur-of-the-moment emotional decision but was carefully considered and planned before it was undertaken. The study revealed that the British participants were attracted to community policing by individual factors – that is, factors that primarily benefitted them as individuals – while community crime prevention was only a secondary concern. By contrast, for the South Korean cohort, participation in community policing was an extension of their commitment to their community. The research findings highlighted two different models of community policing: one underpinned by a commitment to the community and a desire to enhance crime prevention and community safety, and a second model underpinned by personal gain, in which community policing is valued as a stepping stone to formal p...