Police occupational culture: classic themes, altered times
Police occupational culture: classic themes, altered times
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DOI：
10.1080/10439460903281547
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发表时间：
2010-03
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Bethan Loftus
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作者：
Bethan Loftus
对警察文化的理解在很大程度上依赖于几十年前进行的民族志。在这些经典的叙述中，作者们发现了在警察的部署和做法中随着时间和空间的推移而反复出现的主题。然而，在维持治安方面出现了一些重要的事态发展，其中一些事态发展有望改变长期以来支撑警察身份的文化精神。本文借鉴了民族志研究进行的英国警察部队，探讨有多少警察文化的经典特征已经生存的过渡时期。它表明，潜在的世界观的官员显示出显着的连续性与旧的模式，并认为，警察文化的持久性，因为与警察角色的基本压力并没有被删除。鉴于这种明显的持久性的文化主题，这篇文章提出了质疑，越来越多的人认为，正统的概念警察文化不再有任何意义。
Understandings of police culture rely heavily on ethnographies conducted several decades ago. In these classic accounts, authors have identified recurring themes within police dispositions and practices over time and space. There have, however, been important developments within policing contexts, some of which could be expected to transform the cultural ethos that has long underpinned the police identity. This article draws upon ethnographic research conducted in an English police force to explore how much of the classic characteristics of police culture have survived the period of transition. It shows that the underlying world view of officers displays remarkable continuity with older patterns, and argues that police culture endures because the basic pressures associated with the police role have not been removed. In light of this apparent durability of cultural themes, the article calls into question the increasingly accepted view that orthodox conceptions of police culture no longer make any sense.