
Changing Police Culture
Policing in a Multicultural Society
Janet B. L. Chan(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 13. February 1997
Book
Hardback
267 pages
978-0-521-56420-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance within a police organisation and captures the complexity and unpredictability of the change process. It questions the utility of the traditional conception of police culture and proposes a new framework for understanding the inter-relationships between the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies, this book is both empirically rich and theoretically informed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 Maps; 10 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-56420-5 (9780521564205)
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Content
Introduction; 1. Policing in a multicultural society; 2. Discrimination and police work; 3. Strategies for change; 4. Re-examining police culture; 5. Police and minorities in New South Wales; 6. Under new management; 7. The Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: the paper chase; 8. Cop it Sweet: reform by media; 9. Processes and outcomes of change; 10. Changing police culture.