In the Sticks: Cultural Identity in a Rural Police Force

by Malcolm Young

After twenty-five years of police service in urban Tyneside, Malcolm Young, a policeman and social anthropologist, was promoted to Superintendent of the West Mercia Constabulary. The arrival of this 'import' in West Mercia coincided with monetarist demands for efficiency and effectiveness, a political thrust which clashed against rural ideas of hierarchy and paternalism and a culture that denied credibility to outsiders. Detailing the way West Mercia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198762895
• ISBN13: 9780198762898
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"