Professionalizing the police : the unfulfilled promise of police training /

The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fielding, Nigel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Professionalism and police training
  • Mission and challenges
  • Twenty-first century policing?
  • The contemporary training system
  • The experience of training and its aftermath
  • Does training roduce professional policing?
  • The new policing landscape.