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Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with police officers, door (wo)men and prison officers we present intimate, emotional and sometimes harrowing accounts of both the physical and emotional pain routinely endured by those employed as agents of social control. This article positions labour undertaken in such contexts as ‘edgework’; exploring how the boundary, or ‘edge’, between safety and danger is negotiated and managed ‘in the moment’ through embodied performances of empathetic and...

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