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Police Culture in a Changing World
Bethan Loftus
258 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956090-5
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Hardback
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03 December 2009
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- Offers a major ethnographic investigation of present police culture
- Extensive analysis based on fieldwork involving more than 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing and over 60 direct interviews
- Explores the attempts made by the police to effect cultural change to deliver a more effective and equitable service to society
- Reviews the literature on police culture since the 1960s
- Outlines the new social, economic and political field of contemporary British policing
This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. By drawing on over 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing in urban and rural areas and interviews with over 60 officers, the author assesses what impact three decades of social, economic and political change have had on police culture. She offers new understandings of the policing of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the ways in which reform initiatives are accommodated and resisted within the police. The author also explores the attempts of one force to effect cultural change both to improve the working conditions of staff and to deliver a more
effective and equitable service to all groups in society.
Beginning with a review of the literature on police culture from 30 years ago, the author goes on to outline the new social, economic and political field of contemporary British policing. Taking this as a starting point, the remaining chapters present the main findings of the empirical research in what is a a truly comprehensive analysis of present day policing culture.Readership: Criminology academics and students, students of police studies, sociology, law, political science, management studies, and anthropology. Policy-makers and police practitioners.
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Bethan Loftus, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
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"Bethan Loftus' research makes a major contribution to the analysis of contemporary policing, and of the impact of the extensive reform initiatives of the last quarter of a century. It does this by replicating the classic studies of police culture conducted from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, which constituted the core foundations of the understanding of policing. This book would thus fill a hole in the analysis of policing that has long required plugging. It does this in an outstanding way that matches the very best of the classic studies." - Professor Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics
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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?
Appendix- Ethnography with the Police
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