Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society

Janet B. L. Chan

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511518195

Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance within a police organisation and captures the complexity and unpredictability of the change process. It questions the utility of the traditional conception of police culture and proposes a new framework for understanding the inter-relationships between the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice. A highly original and valuable contribution to policing studies, this book is both empirically rich and theoretically informed.

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Introduction
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1 - Policing in a Multicultural Society
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2 - Discrimination and Police Work
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3 - Strategies for Change
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4 - Re-examining Police Culture
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5 - Police and Minorities in New South Wales
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6 - Under New Management
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7 - Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: The Paper Chase
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8 - Cop It Sweet: Reform by Media
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9 - Processes and Outcomes of Change
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10 - Changing Police Culture
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Bibliography of Works Cited
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-vii

List of Tables
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - Policing in a Multicultural Society
pp 15-27

2 - Discrimination and Police Work
pp 28-48

3 - Strategies for Change
pp 49-64

4 - Re-examining Police Culture
pp 65-93

5 - Police and Minorities in New South Wales
pp 94-116

6 - Under New Management
pp 117-155

7 - Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: The Paper Chase
pp 156-168

8 - Cop It Sweet: Reform by Media
pp 169-187

9 - Processes and Outcomes of Change
pp 188-222

10 - Changing Police Culture
pp 223-238

Bibliography of Works Cited
pp 239-249

Index
pp 250-255

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