Police Diversity : Beyond the Blue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lai Quinlan, Tara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police-community relations--United States.

Police-community relations.

Police-community relations--Great Britain.

Diversity in the workplace--United States.

Diversity in the workplace.

Diversity in the workplace--Great Britain.

Police administration--United States.

Police administration.

Police administration--Great Britain.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Police Diversity".

Contents:

Front Cover

Police Diversity: Beyond the Blue

Copyright information

Contents

List of tables

List of interview subjects

About the author

1 Understanding and defining police diversity

Police are not just blue

Street police culture literature

Existing police diversity literature

Representative bureaucracy theory and policing literature

Defining key concepts in equality, diversity and inclusion

Defining equality

Defining diversity

Defining inclusion

Defining colour-blindness

Defining intersectionality

Benefits of comparative criminal justice research

Geographic policing variations and criminal justice policy transfer

Original police leader interviews

Elite interviews

Small interview sample size

Book overview

2 Police culture

Defining police culture

Minority officers and street police culture

Police academy training embeds street police culture

Loyalty and the blue wall of silence

Police unions reinforce street police culture

The guardian policing model

Changing street policing culture

Conclusion

3 Police legitimacy, culture and representativeness

Legitimacy of public institutions

Defining police legitimacy

Poor police legitimacy in many UK communities of colour

Poor police legitimacy in many US communities of colour

Police misconduct impacts police legitimacy

Connecting institutional legitimacy and diversity

Street police culture, diversity and legitimacy

Degree of police representation required

4 Racial and ethnic minorities in policing

Officers of colour in the UK

Officers of colour in the US

Officer of colour experiences

Assimilation into police culture

Racial hostility and racism

Intersectional discrimination and female officers of colour

General assignments and special assignments.

Promotions

Internal discipline

Terminations

Racial profiling practices

Racially profiled on and off duty

'Traitors' and negative community reception

Community relations

Importance of police chiefs of colour

5 Women in policing

History of women officers in the UK

History of women officers in the US

Women's experiences in policing

Hegemonic masculinity theory

Physical stereotypes

Male resistance to female officers

Gender bias in assignments

Steering women into 'feminine' assignments

Exclusion from special assignments

Promotions

Promotions as individual decisions

Promotions as institutionally driven

Sexual harassment

Male allies

Scrutiny and internal discipline

Resignations and voluntary departures

6 LGBTQ+ officers in policing

Introduction: police and LGBTQ+ communities

UK LGBTQ+ police

US LGBTQ+ police

Hegemonically masculine street police culture

Heteronormative street police culture

Resistance to LGBTQ+ officers

Staying closeted or coming out in policing

Being out in policing

Bias in assignments

Homophobic harassment

LGBTQ+ officer associations

Community engagement and community relations

Police leaders and LGBTQ+ inclusion

7 Social class in policing

Defining class in policing

Working-class origins of UK and US policing

Class and police education requirements

Police education levels in the UK

Police education levels in the US

Using police education requirements to shift working-class police culture

Criticism of using police education requirements to shift street police culture

Empirical research on officer education levels and policing outcomes

Police education and supervisor evaluations

Police education and promotions

Police education and ethics.

Police education, internal discipline and misconduct complaints

Police education and discretionary decision-making

Police education and open-mindedness

Police education and authoritarian attitudes

Police education and creative problem solving

Police education and community relations

8 Diversity and representative bureaucracy

Diversity and representative bureaucracy

Representative bureaucrats

Representative bureaucrats in policing

Representative bureaucracy in practice

Race, ethnicity and active bureaucratic representation

Gender and active bureaucratic representation

LGBTQ+ identity and active bureaucratic representation

Social class and active bureaucratic representation

Intergroup contact theory and street police culture

9 Conclusion

Unique access to police leaders

Moving from police warriors to guardians

Changing street police culture

Challenges to changing street police culture

Increasing cultural competency and building bridges

Implementing substantive equality measures to increase police diversity

Lawsuits and consent decrees

Concluding thoughts

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4473-4797-8

1-4473-4798-6

1-4473-4796-X

OCLC:

1500393476