Enduring issues of police culture and demographics
Abstract
I address two issues about police and policing that David Sklansky has raised in two important papers one (as yet unpublished) on what he calls ‘the police subculture schema’ (Sklansky 2007 Sklansky, D.A. 2007. “Seeing blue: Police reform, occupational culture, and cognitive burn-in”. In Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, Edited by: O'Neill, M., Marks, M. and Singh, A. Amsterdam, , The Netherlands: Elsevier. [Google Scholar]); the other about the impact of the new demographics of law enforcement (Sklansky 2006). The two are clearly related in the following questions: What aspects of police culture are enduring? How and in what ways has police culture been impacted by the new demographics? Have the new demographics increased police relations with the black and brown communities?
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An ethos and mutual conceptualization of reality develops in any police department that may include tacit approval of certain actions that are otherwise inappropriate.
“An ethos and mutual conceptualization of reality thus develops in any police department that may include the tacit approval of certain actions that are otherwise inappropriate (Brown 1998; Skolnick 2008).”
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- Authors
- Skolnick, J. H.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Skolnick, Jerome H.
- Venue
- Policing and Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 35-45
- ISSN
- 1043-9463 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-2728
- OpenAlex
- W1988629134
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 21.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Policing & Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Keywords
- police culture, police subculture, police demographics, racial diversity in policing, police-community relations, Black and Brown communities, occupational culture, police reform
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