عنوان

Understanding police culture /

1583605452 (pbk.)

9781583605455 (pbk.)

b420471

Understanding police culture /

[Book]

John P. Crank

2nd ed

[Cincinnati, OH] :

Anderson Pub.,

c2004

ix, 406 p. ;

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-384) and index

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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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.

Police-- Attitudes

Police psychology-- United States

Police-- United States

Crank, John P.,1947-

20080111163907.5

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