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This text offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. Through direct observation of operational policing, the author assesses the impact of three decades of social, economic and political change on police culture.
pt. I. Situating Police Culture -- 1. Replaying the Classics -- Origins and Significance -- The Orthodox Account -- Challenging Accepted Wisdoms -- Changing Police Culture -- 2. The New Social Field of Policing -- Law and the Politics of Order -- Policing a Diverse Society -- Exclusionary Times -- The Retreat of Class in the Age of Recognition -- Revisiting Police Culture -- pt. II. Police Culture in Motion -- 3. Dominant Culture Interrupted -- The 'Old Regime' -- Changing Culture -- Disseminating the New Organizational Ethos -- Narratives of Decline and Discontent -- Durable Discrimination: Minority Perspectives -- New Contestations and the Preservation of Dominance -- Concluding Remarks -- 4. Classic Themes, Altered Times -- From 'Beirut' to the 'Mary Celeste' -- Imagining Policing -- A Masculine Ethos -- Organizational Realities -- Managing Policing Realities -- Maintaining Dominance -- Isolation and Loyalty -- On Patrol -- Enduring Themes of Police Culture -- 5. Policing Diverse Publics -- Policing for Women? -- 'Deviant' Sexualities -- Policing the Multi-ethnic Society -- Responding to the New Realities -- 6. The Continuing Significance of Class -- Rethinking Police Culture -- A Contradiction Emerges -- The Classed Nature of Police Culture -- pt. III. Conclusions -- 7. Police Culture in Transition? -- Classic Characteristics in an Altered Landscape -- Police Culture in a Diverse Society -- Beyond Diversity -- Police Culture and its Tenacity -- 8. Ethnography with the Police -- Gaining Access and Becoming 'Accepted' -- Reflexive Ethnography -- Recording and Interpreting the Field.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009