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100	1		_aRowe, Michael, _d1967- _4aut _9172812
245	1	0	_aDisassembling police culture / _cMike Rowe.
260			_aAbingdon : _bRoutledge, _c2023.
300			_axiii, 161 p. ; _c22 cm.
490	0		_aRoutledge frontiers of criminal justice
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroducing 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPolice _xCase studies _zGreat Britain _9172813
650		0	_aPolice _xAttitudes _xCase studies _zGreat Britain _9172814
710	2		_aRoutledge _4pbl _9156201
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