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Police officer / Claude L. Vincent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vincent, Claude L., author.
- Series:
- Carleton library series ; 160.
- Carleton library series ; 160
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police.
- Police-community relations.
- Police psychology.
- Police--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa, Canada : Carleton University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- This insightful study provides a look at policing in Canada from the viewpoint of rank and file members of the police community. This revised edition of the landmark Policeman (1979) examines police officers as an occupational culture and the way they become socialized into this stressful and often isolated community.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- The Study
- Theory and Method
- The Police Officer's Occupational Environment
- The Social Setting
- The Police Bureaucracy
- The Police Officer and his Public
- Interacting with the Environment
- The Impact of Stress Situations
- Isolation
- The Police Officer
- The Police Officer: Responses to the Occupational Environment
- The Police Office: Identity Based on Occupation
- Changes in the Police Service
- Epilogue
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography/References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9570-8
- OCLC:
- 957124625
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