Understanding Police Culture - 9781138169593

Taylor & Francis

Police culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. > 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\u2014including its tragedies and celebrations\u2014and 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. > Part I: Understanding Police Culture Prologue 1. Culture and Knowledge 2. Issues in the Study of Police Culture 3. Culture and Cultural Themes 4. Articulating Police Culture and Its Environments: Patterns of Line-Officer Interactions Part II: Themes of Police Culture Section I: Coercive Territorial Control 5. The Moral Transformation of Territory Theme: Dominion 6. Force Is Righteous Theme: Force .