Police Culture in a Changing World

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-965353-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

Reihe: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Police Culture in a Changing World represents the return of police research to its original ethnographic form for the first time in decades. The book offers an in-depth investigation of contemporary police dispositions and practices based on extensive field work involving more than 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing across urban and rural terrains, and interviews with over 60 officers from a range of ranks and units in one English police

force.

The author provides a revised account of police culture in the new millennium, identifying various aspects of that culture which have hitherto gone unnoticed. With new understandings of how greater social diversity within and beyond policing organizations are shaping traditional relations, the book explores the impact of prevailing management practices on the way officers think about and perform their jobs, and the form police culture takes under conditions of late modernity. Finally, there is

a theoretical discussion of police culture, tracking the new social, economic, and political field of British Policing, which sets out the main findings of the fieldwork.

Theoretically and empirically informed, Police Culture in a Changing World is a landmark work on contemporary policing culture. Its timely character also has relevance with respect to highly salient issues in the current political climate regarding operational policing.

Zielgruppe

Criminology academics and students, students of police studies, sociology, law, political science, management studies, and anthropology. Policy-makers and police practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loftus, Bethan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I - Situating Police Culture
1: Replaying the Classics
2: The New Social Field of Policing
Part II - Police Culture in Motion
3: Dominant Culture Interrupted
4: Enduring Themes, Altered Times
5: Policing Diverse Publics
6: The Continuing Significance of Class
Part III - Conclusion
7: Police Culture in Transition?

Über Autor(innen)

Loftus, Bethan
Bethan Loftus is a fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford, specialising in policing and police cultures and policing social divisions. She was awarded a Ph.D at the Centre for Criminological Research, Keele University in 2007 for her thesis 'Police Culture in a Diverse Society: A Provincial Police Force in Transition?' She holds an MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice and first class honours degree in criminology and criminal justice, both from the University of Wales.

Bethan Loftus is a fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford, specialising in policing and police cultures and policing social divisions. She was awarded a Ph.D at the Centre for Criminological Research, Keele University in 2007 for her thesis 'Police Culture in a Diverse Society: A Provincial Police Force in Transition?' She holds an
MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice and first class honours degree in criminology and criminal justice, both from the University of Wales.