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Police culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture-including its tragedies and celebrations-and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by sy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crank, John P., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Cincinnati, OH] : Anderson Pub., 2004.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Police > United States.
Police psychology > United States.
Psychologie policière > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Police
Police psychology
Politie.
Bedrijfscultuur.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • PART I: UNDERSTANDING POLICE CULTURE: Prologue
  • Culture and knowledge
  • Issues in the study of police culture
  • Culture and cultural themes
  • Articulating police culture and its environments: patterns of line-officer interactions
  • PART II: THEMES OF POLICE CULTURE: SECTION I: COERCIVE TERRITORIAL CONTROL: The moral transformation of territory (Theme: Domination)
  • Force is righteous (Theme: Force)
  • Crime is war, metaphor (Theme: Militarization)
  • Stopping power (Theme: Guns)
  • SECTION II: THEMES OF THE UNKNOWN: The twilight world (Theme: Suspicion)
  • Danger through the lens of culture (Theme: Danger and its anticipation)
  • Anything can happen on the street (Theme: Unpredictability and situational uncertainty)
  • No animal out there is going to beat me (Theme: Turbulence and edge control)
  • Seductions of the edge (Theme: Seduction)
  • SECTION III: CULTURAL THEMES OF SOLIDARITY: Angels and assholes: the construction of police morality (Theme: Police morality)
  • Common sense and the ironic deconstruction of the obvious (Theme: Common sense)
  • No place for sissies (Theme: Masculinity)
  • Mask of a thousand faces (Theme: Solidarity)
  • America's great guilty crime secret (Theme: Racism)
  • SECTION IV: LOOSELY COUPLING CULTURAL THEMES: On becoming invisible (Theme: Outsiders)
  • Individualism and the paradox of personal accountability (Theme: Individualism)
  • The truth game (Theme: Deception)
  • Cop deterrence and the soft legal system (Theme: Deterence)
  • The petty injustice and the everlasting grudges (Theme: Bullshit)
  • SECTION V: DEATH AND POLICE CULTURE: Thinking about ritual
  • The culture eater (Theme: Death)
  • Good-bye in a sea of blue (Theme: Police funerals)
  • Postscript.

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