Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions
Megan O´neill
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Description for Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions
Hardback. Using studies from Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada, this book offers a contemporary look at police culture from an international perspective by questioning established silos in topics, by presenting new ways of thinking about police culture and suggesting forms that police culture is likely to take in the future. Editor(s): O'Neill, Megan; Marks, Monique; Singh, Anne-Marie. Series: Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance. Num Pages: 412 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 239 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
The idea of police occupational culture or cop culture has been a source of academic interest and debate since research into policing began in earnest in the 1960s. Police culture has become a lens through which a number of aspects of the police and policing more broadly have been studied, including the use of discretion, police corruption, institutional racism, sexism and police reform. For the most part, these studies have been done in topical isolation from each other and have focused rather narrowly on Anglo-American state policing forms. Using studies from Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada, this ... Read more
The idea of police occupational culture or cop culture has been a source of academic interest and debate since research into policing began in earnest in the 1960s. Police culture has become a lens through which a number of aspects of the police and policing more broadly have been studied, including the use of discretion, police corruption, institutional racism, sexism and police reform. For the most part, these studies have been done in topical isolation from each other and have focused rather narrowly on Anglo-American state policing forms. Using studies from Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
Series
Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780762313075
SKU
V9780762313075
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