Bethan Loftus

Police Culture in a Changing World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. Through direct observation of operational policing and interviews, the author assesses the impact of three decades of social, economic and political change on police culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191629723
• Artikelnr.: 38136660

Autorenporträt

Bethan Loftus is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, specialising in policing and police cultures and policing social divisions. She holds an MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice and first class honours degree in criminology and criminal justice, both from the University of Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - Situating Police Culture
1: Replaying the Classics
2: The New Social Field of Policing
Part II - Police Culture in Motion
3: Dominant Culture Interrupted
4: Enduring Themes, Altered Times
5: Policing Diverse Publics
6: The Continuing Significance of Class
Part III - Conclusion
7: Police Culture in Transition?
Appendix- Ethnography with the Police