| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Publisher's description: Police forces everywhere have been undergoing major social and organizational changes. In this, one of the few longitudinal studies of police socialization, Janet Chan, Christopher Devery, and Sally Doran present the complexity of police socialization under these changing conditions. Following 150 new police recruits through two years of training and apprenticeship, the authors question the traditional model of socialization that assumes a degree of stability and homogeneity in the organizational culture. They suggest that recruits' developmental paths can be much more varied and police culture is increasingly vulnerable to change. Drawing on interviews, observations, and questionnaires, the authors depict the complex processes by which recruits adapt, redefine, cope with, and make sense of the positive and negative aspects of their training and apprenticeship. Bringing together rigorous quantitative analyses with rich ethnographic description, Fair Cop provides new empirical data and theoretical understanding about the reproduction and change of police culture. |
| Contents |
1. Organizational Socialization and Professionalism -- 2. Research Organization and Methods / Janet Chan and Sally Doran -- 3. Joining the Organization -- 4. Learning at the Academy / Chris Devery -- 5. Learning in the Field -- 6. Taking On the Culture -- 7. Negotiating the Field -- 8. Doing Gender / Sally Doran and Janet Chan -- 9. Conclusion: Learning the Art of Policing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Police training.
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Police training. |
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Police -- Attitudes.
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Police -- Attitudes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Added Author |
Devery, Chris.
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Doran, Sally, active 1995-2003.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chan, Janet B.L. Fair cop. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003 9780802036636 (DLC) 2003271422 (OCoLC)50581169 |
| ISBN |
9781442674783 (electronic book) |
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1442674784 (electronic book) |
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1282022849 |
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9781282022843 |
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0802036635 (bound) |
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0802084915 (paperback) |
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9780802036636 |
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9780802084910 |
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