Research Catalog

Title

Police culture : adapting to the strains of the job / Eugene Paoline and William Terrill.

Author

Paoline, Eugene A.

Publication

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Terrill, William, 1965-

Description

xiv, 179 pages ; illustration; 24cm

Summary

"Police Culture: Adapting to the Strains of the Job provides clarity to such discussions by comprehensively organizing the disparate conceptualizations of police culture based on key assumptions, foundational research, primary cultural explanation, and common research methodologies. Based on in-person surveys of patrol officers from seven agencies of varying size, structure, and geographic locale, the book also provides one of the most comprehensive empirical examinations of police culture to date."--Publishers website.

Subject

• Police > United States > Attitudes
• Police subculture > United States
• Police > Job stress > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Police culture: making sense of disparate conceptualizations -- The historical context of policing: the evolution of prevailing operational philosophies and the implications for police culture -- The external and internal environments of seven departments -- Surveying patrol officers: process, success, and lessons -- Adapting to the strains of policing: evidence from seven departments --Conclustions and implications.

ISBN

• 9781611630473 (alk. paper)
• 1611630479 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013030667

OCLC

900794327

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library