Fair cop : learning the art of policing / Janet B.L. Chan ; with Chris Devery and Sally Doran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Janet B. L.

Contributor:

Devery, Chris.

Doran, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police training.

Police--Attitudes.

Police.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Publisher's description: Police forces everywhere have been undergoing major social and organizational changes. In this, one of the few longitudinal studies of police socialization, Janet Chan, Christopher Devery, and Sally Doran present the complexity of police socialization under these changing conditions. Following 150 new police recruits through two years of training and apprenticeship, the authors question the traditional model of socialization that assumes a degree of stability and homogeneity in the organizational culture. They suggest that recruits' developmental paths can be much more varied and police culture is increasingly vulnerable to change. Drawing on interviews, observations, and questionnaires, the authors depict the complex processes by which recruits adapt, redefine, cope with, and make sense of the positive and negative aspects of their training and apprenticeship. Bringing together rigorous quantitative analyses with rich ethnographic description, Fair Cop provides new empirical data and theoretical understanding about the reproduction and change of police culture.

Contents:

1. Organizational Socialization and Professionalism

2. Research Organization and Methods / Janet Chan and Sally Doran

3. Joining the Organization

4. Learning at the Academy / Chris Devery

5. Learning in the Field

6. Taking On the Culture

7. Negotiating the Field

8. Doing Gender / Sally Doran and Janet Chan

9. Conclusion: Learning the Art of Policing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-282-02284-9

9786612022845

1-4426-7478-4

OCLC:

944178203