The Politics of the Police
Abstract
The fourth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed Politics of the Police has been completely revised and updated to take into account of recent changes in the law, policy, and organization of policing. From Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry to Life on Mars, Robert Reiner explores the highly-charged debates that surround policing, including the various controversies and developments that have led to a change in the public's opinion of the police in recent years, and analyses the proposals for reform. The book sets out to analyze how the police are perceived and the impact the mass media has on the public's perception and what we can expect in the future, given current research into police working practices and proposals for reform.
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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.”
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- Authors
- Reiner, R.
- Corresponding author
- Reiner, Robert
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W1941762603
- Cited by
- 1,886
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 160.92
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- 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 and politics, public perception of police, police reform, police organization
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