Disassembling Police Culture

by Mike Rowe

Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police culture is a concept widely used, often critically, to characterise the working attitudes and behaviours of (usually uniformed) police officers. It is shorthand for a workplace imbued with machismo, racism, sexism, a thirst for danger and excitement, cynicism and conservatism. Rather than looking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103202254X
• ISBN13: 9781032022543
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"