Police Occupational Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1307-5
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

Police occupational culture has been a great source of academic interest since research into policing began in earnest in the 1960s. Police culture has become a lens through which a number of aspects of police have been studied including the use of discretion, police corruption, institutional racism and sexism, and also police reform. These studies have tended to be done in topical isolation from each other and have focused rather narrowly on Anglo-American state policing forms. This book aims at a contemporary look at police culture by questioning established silos in topics, presenting new ways of thinking about police culture and what forms police culture is likely to take in the future. The chapters in this book are both explanatory and normative and deal with a range of new topics in police cultural studies including the impact of tertiary education opportunities on police culture, police unions as counter-cultural groupings, the coming together of private and public policing cultures, and the impact of new identity groupings on police organizational culture. This book will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in police and policing studies, crime and criminal justice and to police practitioners themselves.

- Presents a timely reassessment of the new dimensions of police occupational culture
Proposes a new schema for thinking and writing about policing culture
- Considers aspects of the police occupational culture from an international perspective through including studies from Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada. one often neglected in Anglo-American research
- Revisits the meaning of police culture in the light of key developments in the field of policing including the pluralization of policing governance and delivery; new management practices and the increased diversification and representation within police organizations

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, Megan

Marks, Monique

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:

Part I: Rethinking accepted wisdoms of police occupational culture
The Dialectic of Organizational and Occupational Culture
Seeing Blue: Police Reform, Occupational Culture, and Cognitive Burn-In
Policing the Irrelevant: Class, Diversity and Contemporary Police Culture
Police Culture(s): Some Definitional, Contextual and Analytical Considerations

Part II: Structural change and police culture
Cops with Honours: University Education and Police Culture
Police Stress and Occupational Culture Conflict and African Police Culture: The Cases of Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone

Part III: Police as agents of change
Police Unions and their Influence: Subculture or Counter-Culture?
New bottles, same wine; taking a gender perspective on police occupational culture
Black Police Associations and the Police Occupational Culture
To Serve and Protect: Strategies of Gay and Lesbian Police Officers within the Police Occupational Culture

Part IV: New policing cultures in a plural policing field
Reflections on the Study of Private Policing Cultures: Early Leads and Key Themes
Transforming Police Culture through Security Networks
Police Reform, Culture, Governance and Democracy

Conclusion