Rethinking police culture : officers' occupational attitudes / Eugene A. Paoline III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paoline, Eugene A.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--United States--Attitudes.

Police.

Police subculture--United States.

Police subculture.

Occupational surveys--United States.

Occupational surveys.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 287 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2001.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Examinations of Police Culture 5

1.1 The Concept of Culture 6

1.2 Workplace Culture 8

1.3 Depictions of Police Culture 12

1.4 Personnel Heterogeneity and Changing Philosophies in Policing 27

Chapter 2 Cultural Attitudes and Expectations 31

2.1 Police Officer Attitudes 32

2.2 Assessing Cultural and Subcultural Attitudes 36

2.3 Clusters as Subcultures 37

2.4 Expected Group Formations 38

2.5 Police Officer Background Characteristics and Occupational Attributes 49

Chapter 3 Data and Methodology 57

3.1 Data Collection and Departments 57

3.2 Analytical Plan 59

3.3 Limitations 61

3.4 Significance of Research 62

Chapter 4 Patrol Officer Measures and Distributions 65

4.1 Citizenry 66

4.2 Supervision 69

4.3 Legal Restrictions 75

4.4 Role Orientation 76

4.5 Policing Tactics 82

4.6 Police Officer Background Characteristics and Occupational Attributes 84

Chapter 5 Attitudinal Groups of Patrol Officers 89

5.1 K-Means Cluster Analysis 89

5.2 Determining the Number of Clusters 91

5.3 Patrol Officer Clusters 93

5.4 Cultural and Subcultural Attitudes 109

5.5 Cluster Stability 112

5.6 Clusters as Subcultures 115

Chapter 6 Patrol Officer Background Characteristics, Occupational Attributes, and Group Membership 119

6.1 Officers' Background Characteristics 120

6.2 Officers' Occupational Attributes 126

Chapter 7 Patrol Supervisors and Group Membership 137

7.1 Patrol Officer Groups: Subset of Attitudes 137

7.2 Patrol and Supervisor Officers Groups 148

7.3 Subcultural Similarity Across Rank 151

7.4 Supervisor Representation Across Groups 152

7.5 Supervisor Background Characteristics and Occupational Attributes 153

8.1 Key Findings 164

8.2 Limitations of the Research 167

8.3 Practical Implications 169

8.4 Theoretical Implications and Future Research 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and indexes.

ISBN:

1931202133

OCLC:

47827130