Key Features
- The first section addresses the definition of culture and the understanding of police culture, while section two moves on to themes of police culture.
Description
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.
Understanding Police Culture, 2nd Edition
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
7. Crime Is War, Metaphor
Theme: Militarization
8. Stopping Power
Theme: Guns
Section II: Themes of the Unknown
9. The Twilight World
Theme: Suspicion
10. Danger Through the Lens of Culture
Theme: Danger and Its Anticipation
11. Anything Can Happen on the Street
Theme: Unpredictability and Situational Uncertainty
12. No Animal Out There Is Going to Beat Me
Theme: Turbulence and Edge Control
13. Seductions of the Edge
Theme: Seduction
Section III: Cultural Themes of Solidarity
14. Angels and Assholes: The Construction of Police Morality
Theme: Police Morality
15. Common Sense and the Ironic Deconstruction of the Obvious
Theme: Common Sense
16. No Place for Sissies
Theme: Masculinity
17. Mask of a Thousand Faces
Theme: Solidarity
18. America’s Great Guilty Crime Secret
Theme: Racism
Section IV: Loosely Coupling Cultural Themes
19. On Becoming Invisible
Theme: Outsiders
20. Individualism and the Paradox of Personal Accountability
Theme: Individualism
21. The Truth Game
Theme: Deception
22. Cop Deterrence and the Soft Legal System
Theme: Deterrence
23. The Petty Injustice and Everlasting Grudges
Theme: Bullshit
Section V: Death and Police Culture
24. Thinking About Ritual
25. The Culture Eater
Theme: Death
26. Good-bye in a Sea of Blue
Theme: Police Funerals
