rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Police occupational culture
    sub title: new debates and directions
  name:
    name part: O'Neill, Megan
    name part: 1974-
  name:
    name part: Marks, Monique.
  name:
    name part: Singh, Anne-Marie.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Elsevier JAI
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 393 p.) : ill.
  abstract: 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 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.In revisiting 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, the chapters in this book offer both explanatory and normative approaches to the topic. The chapters also point to new topics in police cultural studies, such as 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.Students and researchers in police and policing studies, crime and criminal justice, as well as police practitioners themselves, should find this volume of the "Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance" series a particularly interesting read. It presents a timely reassessment of the new dimensions of police occupational culture Proposes a new schema for thinking and writing about policing culture. It considers aspects of the poli…
  note: edited by Megan O'Neill, Monique Marks, Anne-Marie Singh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Police
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Police
  subject:
    topic: Crime & criminology
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: Law Enforcement
  classification: HV7921 .P5713 2007
  classification: 363.2
  classification: 343.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Police occupational culture
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007
    identifier: (OCoLC)137313924
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sociology of crime, law and deviance ; v. 8
  identifier: 9780857240552 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 0857240552 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 9780762313075 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0762313072 (hbk.)
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1521-6136/8
  record info:
    record content source: MERUC
    record creation date: 070524
    record change date: 20100917015550.0
    record identifier: ocn441780284
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng