Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society
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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.
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The policing habitus is resilient and difficult to change once key dispositions are acquired, even when socio-political developments change the field.
“The resilience of the habitus means once key dispositions are acquired, particularly early in a career, the habitus becomes difficult to alter even when socio-political developments change the field.”
From Field, capital and the policing habitus: Understanding Bourdieu through the NYPD's post-9/11 counterterrorism practices (2021) · cites this paper as Chan, 1997
The NYPD's embedded dispositions include many core characteristics typical of other street policing habitus, such as adversarial relations with many poor and ethnic minority communities.
“Documentary analysis conducted herein suggests the embedded dispositions of the NYPD's policing habitus also include many core characteristics typical of other street policing habitus described above by Chan (1997) and Reiner (2010), such as adversarial relations with many poor and ethnic minority communities.”
From Field, capital and the policing habitus: Understanding Bourdieu through the NYPD's post-9/11 counterterrorism practices (2021) · cites this paper as Chan (1997)
The resilient habitus analysis provides richer understanding of the complexities of institutions and their practices.
“In the first instance, this article built on Chan's (1997) works and emerging Bourdieusian criminology (Robinson et al., 2013; Phillips, 2015; Shammas and Sandberg, 2016; Sandberg and Fleetwood, 2016) to show why the resilient habitus analysis provides richer understanding of the complexities of institutions and their practices.”
From Field, capital and the policing habitus: Understanding Bourdieu through the NYPD's post-9/11 counterterrorism practices (2021) · cites this paper as Chan, 1997
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- Authors
- Chan, J. B. L.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Chan, Janet B. L.
- ORCID
- Chan, Janet B. L.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1997-02-13
- OpenAlex
- W2102550271
- Cited by
- 818
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 21.20
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- handle.unsw.edu.au
- Licence
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Keywords
- police culture, racism in policing, police reform, organizational change, resistance to change, police deviance, police practice, Australian police
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