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Changing police culture : policing in a multicultural society / Janet B.L. Chan.

By:

Chan, Janet B. L [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521564204
9780521564205
0521564557
9780521564557

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.20994 21

LOC classification:

HV8280.A2 C43 1997

Contents:

1. Policing in a multicultural society -- 2. Discrimination and police work -- 3. Strategies for change -- 4. Re-examining police culture -- 5. Police and minorities in New South Wales -- 6. Under new management -- 7. The Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: the paper chase -- 8. Cop it Sweet: reform by media -- 9. Processes and outcomes of change -- 10. Changing police culture.

Summary: "Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance within a police organisation and captures the complexity and unpredictability of the change process. It questions the utility of the traditional conception of police culture and proposes a new framework for understanding the inter-relationships between the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies, this book is both empirically rich and theoretically informed."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.

"Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance within a police organisation and captures the complexity and unpredictability of the change process. It questions the utility of the traditional conception of police culture and proposes a new framework for understanding the inter-relationships between the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies, this book is both empirically rich and theoretically informed."--Publisher description.

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