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Professionalizing the police : the unfulfilled promise of police training / Nigel G. Fielding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding, Nigel, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon studies in criminology.
- Clarendon studies in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police training.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- A critical reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda, drawing on empirical evidence to add to a major theme of police research: the theorizations of police legitimacy.
- Contents:
- 1.Professionalism and Police Training
- 2.Mission and Challenges
- Defining and Measuring Police Work
- Policing Strategies
- PACE and Suspect Populations
- Racism, Hate Crime, and Terrorism
- Ruptured Communities, Polarization, and Disaffiliation
- Mythologies of New Governance: More Powers, Fewer Constraints
- 3.Twenty-First Century Policing?
- Managerialism and Organizational Structure
- Managerial Agendas
- Technology
- The New Challenges of Law Enforcement and Order Maintenance
- Community Policing
- 4.The Contemporary Training System
- History of Training
- Auxiliaries
- Detective Training
- Supervisor and Management Training
- Direct Entry
- 5.The Experience of Training and its Aftermath
- Pedagogy
- Socialization
- Wastage and Advancement
- 6.Does Training Produce Professional Policing?
- Corruption, Misconduct, and Complaints
- Diversity in the Police Organization
- Sickness and Stress
- Public Confidence and Trust
- Professional Competence and Training
- 7.The New Policing Landscape
- Topography of the Police Landscape
- Training to Negotiate the New Terrain
- Police and Higher Education
- A Professional Practice?.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780192550286
- 0192550284
- 9780191859434
- 0191859435
- 9780192549730
- 0192549731
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