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CHANGING POLICE CULTURE

CHAN, J.·1996·British Journal of Criminology

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This paper reviews the concept of police culture and its utility for analysing the impact of police reform. The persistence of police culture has been considered a serious obstacle to reform, but the concept itself has been poorly defined and is of little analytic value. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of ‘field’ and ‘habitus’ and adopting a framework developed by Sackmann, this paper suggests a new way of conceptualizing police culture, one which recognizes its interpretive and creative aspects, as well as the legal and political context of police work. Thus, police culture results from an interaction between the ‘field’ of policing and the various dimensions of police organizational knowledge. The utility of this framework is discussed in relation to a case study of reforming police/minorities relations in Australia.

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Authors
CHAN, J.
Venue
British Journal of Criminology
Published
1996-01-01
Volume
36
Issue
1
Pages
109-134
ISSN
  • 0007-0955 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-3529
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W4292198128
Cited by
481
References
0
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11.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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