Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this study of police racism and police reform in Australia, Janet Chan provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of policeSHminorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance within an organization 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 interrelationships among the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies and studies of organizational reform, the book is both empirically rich and theoretically informed.
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."..clearly a valuable addition to the literature on urban governance as well as a contribution to the overall debate on multiculturalism in Australian society." Pacific Affairs
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This book examines the dynamics of change and resistance in a police organisation. It aims at understanding why police racism persists in spite of years of reform. Using the experience of a large Australian police force, Janet Chan provides a well-argued and detailed assessment of why police reform has failed to change police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies, this book pulls apart the traditional concept of police culture and offers a useful new way of thinking about cultural change.
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Australia in the 1990s is a country of remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity, with more than 100 ethnic groups, speaking 80 immigrant languages and 150 Aboriginal languages (Castles et al. 1988: 25). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
understanding police culture, community consultative committees, client group consultants, ethnic liaison officers, management cop culture, changing police culture, probationary constables, beat policing, discriminatory police practices, police occupational culture, axiomatic knowledge, police racism, unfair targeting, police organisation, police actors, community liaison officers, operational police, institutionalised corruption, directory knowledge, senior constable, police deviance, dictionary knowledge, real police work, patrol commanders, normal policing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Cop It Sweet, Neighbourhood Watch, Ethnic Affairs Commission, Police Board, Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement, Northern Territory, Van Maanen, Ethnic Client Consultant, United States, Royal Commission, Landa Report, Safety House, Operation Sue, John Avery, Lusher Report, Western Australia, Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers, Ethnic Community Liaison Officers, Aboriginal Client Consultant, Commissioner of Police, Community Relations Bureau, Tactical Response Group, Youth Justice Coalition, Aboriginal Deaths New!
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Australia in the 1990s is a country of remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity, with more than 100 ethnic groups, speaking 80 immigrant languages and 150 Aboriginal languages (Castles et al. 1988: 25). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
understanding police culture, community consultative committees, client group consultants, ethnic liaison officers, management cop culture, changing police culture, probationary constables, beat policing, discriminatory police practices, police occupational culture, axiomatic knowledge, police racism, unfair targeting, police organisation, police actors, community liaison officers, operational police, institutionalised corruption, directory knowledge, senior constable, police deviance, dictionary knowledge, real police work, patrol commanders, normal policing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Cop It Sweet, Neighbourhood Watch, Ethnic Affairs Commission, Police Board, Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement, Northern Territory, Van Maanen, Ethnic Client Consultant, United States, Royal Commission, Landa Report, Safety House, Operation Sue, John Avery, Lusher Report, Western Australia, Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers, Ethnic Community Liaison Officers, Aboriginal Client Consultant, Commissioner of Police, Community Relations Bureau, Tactical Response Group, Youth Justice Coalition, Aboriginal Deaths New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Final report in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Criminal Law (The Foundation Studies in Law Series) by Michael Jefferson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Introducing Policing: Challenges for Police & Australian Communities by Mark Findlay in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Violence, Society, and the Church: A Cultural Approach by Gerald A. Arbuckle on page 95
- Community Policing (B) by Mike Brogden in Back Matter
- Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions (Published in association with The Open University) by Gordon Hughes on page 120
- Sexual Politics and Social Control by Frances Heidensohn in Back Matter
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