Understanding Police Culture

Name: Understanding Police Culture
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ISBN: 9781583605455

ISBN-10: 1583605452

ISBN-13: 9781583605455

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: John P. Crank

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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 systematically integrating a broad literature on police culture into middle-range theory, and developing original perspectives about many aspects of police work. The first section addresses the definition of culture and the understanding of police culture, while section two moves on to themes of police culture.

Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 7.09" wide x 10.08" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



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



Themes of Police Culture



Coercive Territorial Control



The Moral Transformation of Territory: Theme: Dominion



Force Is Righteous: Theme: Force



Crime Is War, Metaphor: Theme: Militarization



Stopping Power: Theme: Guns



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



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



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: Deterrence



The Petty Injustice and Everlasting Grudges: Theme: Bullshit



Death and Police Culture



Thinking About Ritual



The Culture Eater: Theme: Death



Good-bye in a Sea of Blue: Theme: Police Funerals


Postscript


References


Index