Police occupational culture : new debates and directions /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2007.
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Series: | Sociology of crime, law and deviance ;
v. 8 |
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=203191 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background to Current Police Culture Research
- New Debates and Directions in Research
- Part I: Deconstructing the Notion of Police Occupational Culture
- Part II: Police Reform, Cultural Change and Continuity
- Part III: Police as Change Agents
- Part IV: New Policing Cultures in a Plural Policing Field
- Note
- References
- Part I: Deconstructing the Notion of Police Occupational Culture
- Chapter 1. Seeing Blue: Police Reform, Occupational Culture, and Cognitive Burn-In
- Origins of the Police Subculture Schema
- The Police Subculture Schema and American police Reform
- Neglected Avenues of Reform: Institutional Design
- Neglected Avenues of Reform: Good Cops and Bad Cops
- Neglected Avenues of Reform: Participatory Decision-Making
- Overlooked Dangers: Diversification and Affirmative Action
- Overlooked Dangers: Police Managerialism
- References
- Chapter 2. A Dialectic of Organisational and Occupational Culture
- Introduction
- Structural Features of Anglo-American Police Organisations that Divide and Unify the Occupation
- Careers
- An Overview of Studies of Police Occupational Culture
- Segmentation of the Police Occupation
- A Dialectic Excursion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 3. Police Culture(S): Some Definitional, Methodological and Analytical Considerations
- What is oral History?
- Definitional Considerations: the Meaning of Police Culture
- Oral History Methods and Police Culture
- Making Sense of Police Narratives
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part II: Police Reform, Cultural Change and Continuity
- Chapter 4. Cops with Honours: University Education and Police Culture
- Introduction
- The Research
- No Gentlemen, Please, we're British
- The Essex 'Guinea Pigs'
- Re-Entry and Subsequent Career
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5. Police Stress and Occupational Culture
- Introduction: Stress and Culture
- Research Methods
- Stressors in a Changing Field
- Coping with Episodic Stressors
- Coping with Organisational Stressors
- Stressors and Police Culture
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter 6. Police Reform, Governance, and Democracy
- Introduction
- Culture and Reform
- Narratives of Reform
- Local Perspectives on Reform
- The Fallacy of Expertise
- Democracy, Citizenship, and Participation
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Chapter 7. Policing the 'Irrelevant': Class, Diversity and Contemporary Police Culture
- Introduction
- Rethinking Police Culture and the Omnipresence of Class Contempt
- Changing Police Culture in Northshire
- Dirty Work in 'Beirut'
- Policing the 'Irrelevant'
- Classed Places, Classed People
- Classed Bodies: A Visual Register
- Unemployment
- the Erosion of Worth
- Conclusion: Police Culture and the Continuing Significance of Class
- Notes.