Human rights have become a dominant paradigm in police reform projects worldwide, championed by policymakers, legislators and campaigners alike. Such projects are often premised on, and evaluated according to, a conception of human rights as an autonomous, coherent and legitimate body of norms. It is a paradigm made real through formal training, procedures and oversight. This paper invites a different reading of human rights. Drawing on extensive interviews with junior officers, it reveals how human rights come to be emergent from, and embedded within, the minutia of their working lives. The presence and meaning of human rights are sustained through a series of ‘sensemaking’ narratives arising from the rich intermingling of legal and organizational representations of rights and officers’ own experiences. Subtle variations, inconsistencies and contradictions in officers’ sensemaking are revealed across a four-fold typology which disrupts the stability and coherency of the human rights paradigm, but also generalizations made about police culture.

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纠正警察：警察如何理解人权？

人权已成为全球警察改革项目的主导范式，受到政策制定者、立法者和活动家的拥护。此类项目通常以人权概念为前提，并根据其作为自主、连贯和合法的规范体系进行评估。这是通过正式培训、程序和监督实现的范例。本文邀请人们对人权进行不同的解读。通过对初级军官的广泛采访，它揭示了人权是如何从他们工作生活的细节中产生并嵌入其中的。人权的存在和意义是通过一系列“意义建构”的叙述来维持的，这些叙述源于权利的法律和组织表述以及官员自己的经历的丰富混合。细微的变化，