| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Clarendon studies in criminology
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Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Professionalism and police training -- Mission and challenges -- Twenty-first century policing? -- The contemporary training system -- The experience of training and its aftermath -- Does training roduce professional policing? -- The new policing landscape. |
| Summary |
The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one of contemporary policing's harshest tests. Police training has reflected these ambiguities and uncertainties. The ground its curriculum covers, pedagogy it employs, and structures through which it operates have been contested, troublesome to manage, and blamed for policing's failures. Behind these frictions lie large issues of governance, policing's place in society, and what it means to be professional. Policing's contemporary rhetoric of managerialism, consumer focus, and technology is an expression of unreconstructed modernism. Late modernity is marked by uncertainty and scepticism. In 'post-truth' times, professionalism must accommodate ambiguities of class, ethnicity, and sexuality. The police languish as last believers in a monochrome vision of society while the norms that make for contemporary sociality have moved on to a multiplex of diversities that harbour new extremes both of tolerance and intolerance. True professionalism alerts practitioners to other ways of delivering social control and just societies: empowering citizens and encouraging autonomy; supporting new modes of social relationships and lifestyle; fitting provision to cases; pluralizing services. This yardstick is used to assess and challenge the recruit and in-service curriculum and to tease out the options around which professionalism can be configured and embedded such that it plays its part in a humane, coherent, and accountable framework of police governance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Police -- Great Britain.
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Police. |
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Great Britain. |
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Police training -- Great Britain.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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Police training. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Other Form: |
Print version : 9780198817475 |
| ISBN |
9780192549730 (electronic book) |
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0192549731 (electronic book) |
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0191859435 (electronic book) |
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9780191859434 (electronic book) |
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9780198817475 |
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