TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowe,Michael
ED  - Routledge
TI  - Disassembling police culture
T2  - Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
SN  - 9781032022543
U1  - 363.20941 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Abingdon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Police
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Attitudes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introducing Police Culture -- Spencer and Carol: A Shift -- Turning Blue? -- On the Record -- Part of a Whole -- Billy and Timothy: A Shift -- No cultural dopes -- Culture disassembled
N2  - "Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decision-making and actions. Police culture is a concept widely used, often critically, to characterise the working attitudes and behaviours of (usually uniformed) police officers. It is shorthand for a workplace imbued with machismo, racism, sexism, a thirst for danger and excitement, cynicism and conservatism. Rather than looking for culture or identifying how culture affects behaviours, this book identifies factors that influence the decisions and actions, including technology, targets, training, timing, intelligence, geography and supervision, thus reassembling police culture much as Bruno Latour sought to reassemble the social. The analysis develops a clearer and critical understanding of culture by explicitly connecting the debates about police culture to those about organisational culture. Offering a detailed ethnography of two shifts, it grounds the analysis of the idea of police culture in a 'thick description' of the day-to-day activities observed in the police station and the patrol car, rather than using brief illustrative extracts. The book dispenses with any assumption of the utility of the concept of police culture, not least because it is opaque, and reassembles our understanding of policing and, if it retains any relevance, of police culture. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of policing, criminology, sociology, law, politics and all those interested in the day-to-day lives of police officers"--
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