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  title info:
    title: Police culture in a changing world
  name:
    name part: Loftus, Bethan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 236 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Bethan Loftus.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Police
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Infrastructure
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Polizei
  subject:
    topic: Soziologie
  subject:
    geographic: Großbritannien
  classification: HV7921 .L645 2009
  classification: 363.2
  classification: KM615 LOF
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 111115
    record change date: 20260318185328.7
    record identifier: in00005706981
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng