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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"police culture"”.
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Police culture and organisation
The British police has become a more controversial institution over the last 30 years, during which period the interest of social scientists in the nature of policing has intensified accordingly. As knowledge has accumulated, researchers have increasingly sought to influence the policy-making …
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Police Culture and Socialisation within a UK University
… made significant efforts to professionalise the police service in England and Wales. One of their approaches was to require police students to study at university, before becoming police officers. It has been hypothesised that requiring police students to study at university may ensure that …
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Whistleblowing and Moral Dilemmas in Policing: An Analysis of Police Culture and the 'Blue Code of Silence'
This thesis explores police officers’ moral experience with the ‘blue code of silence’ and whistleblowing relating to corruption, misconduct and abuses of civilians. The interview responses of five (5) Canadian police officers is presented and examined using a meta-analytical approach of symbolic …
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A study of public order police officers' perceptions of traumatic symptomatology
The present study examined Public Order Police Officers' perceptions of traumatic symptomatology. The study consists of three aims. The first aim was to ascertain the type of traumatic symptomatology members of the Public Order Police experience. The second aim was to determine whether rank has an …
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Policing That Matters: Making Civilian Oversight Work
… have been 8 fatal shootings by the San Francisco Police Department and no officers have faced any administrative discipline. This paper works to demonstrate how the San Francisco Police Department escapes administrative discipline in situations of officer involved shootings (OIS) through the …
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Tools in the Toolbox: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Police Officers, mHealth Mobile Application Engagement and Associated Systems of Coping Mechanisms
A significant issue confronting Canadian police executives today pertains to the escalating prevalence of mental health and addiction cases among their officers. In response, the Halton Regional Police Service initiated a mental wellness campaign in 2020, incorporating a mobile application aimed at …
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Policing the problem? Irish domestic violence policy and the role of the police, 1994-2018
… a specific focus on the role of the national police service, An Garda Síochána. This examination will track the emergence of domestic violence as a societal issue in Ireland from the mid-1990s, and will consider how and why a policy framework developed in response, using theory and an …
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Homeland Security: Institution Building and Agency Cooperation
… attacks. Specifically, utilizing the concepts of police culture, bureaucracy, and neoinstitutional theory this research seeks to determine whether police are willingly cooperating and participating in the formation of the homeland security societal sector. Of particular interest is how …
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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… between these behaviours, as well as the way police culture informs the process of labelling organized criminals. This is by virtue of its adherence to anachronistic and outmoded models of organized criminal offending, resulting in an undue focus on certain offences and a failure to appreciate …
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"Suck it up, Buttercup": The Role of Gender in the Mental Health of Police Officers
Police officers are at higher risk for several different mental disorders relative to the general population, arguably due to the nature of their work. Women police officers report elevated mental disorders symptoms when compared to men police officers. Empirical research on which factors may be …
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Eu policy in combating organised crime
… the need for cooperation and uniformity in police culture and customs in states. International bodies, such as the United Nations, have generated their own definition in order to be able to align penalties, and to enable members to cooperate more effectively. In a conference held in Toronto …
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Exploring a Holistic Conceptualization of Destructive Leadership: Perspectives from the Lived Experiences of Latino Law Enforcement Command Staff Officers
… example, the participants discussed how machismo culture was embedded in the fabric of their organizations, and they described toxic leaders as having machismo traits. The police culture also influenced how they chose to express and, at times, suppress their Latino identities.</p> <p>A novel …
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Police perception of danger
… between danger, stress, and the well-being of police officers. Still, gaps remain in understanding officers' perceptions of danger. This study addresses these gaps by exploring the concept of subjective danger perception, a cognitive and emotional response to potential physical or psychological …
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An exploration of female frontline officers' experiences of potentially traumatic events: an IPA study
… consequences of occupational trauma among police officers (Brewin et al, 2020), with higher rates of PTSD and C-PTSD found compared with the civilian population (Baker, 2020). The likelihood of gender differentiation has been recognised, however studies utilising clinical measures, have …
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Colorism and Local Policing: Setting the Foundation for More Expansive Research on Racial Discrimination at the Local Level
… online focus groups and phone interviews with police officers, theorists (e.g., sociologists, psychologists), and non-subject-matter experts to gather feedback. Majority of the informants recommended that future research on interactive colorism be framed as a bidirectional phenomenon. The …
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Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Arrested for Homicide Offences: The Working Practices of Detectives and Third Parties
… between July 2018 and January 2020. 125 police suspect interviews and 29 custody records were analysed for 27 vulnerable suspects on 26 investigations, across three police forces. This was supplemented with 37 semi-structured interviews with police officers, AAs and legal advisors. …
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Policiamento comunitário na cidade de João Pessoa/ PB: realidade o mito?
… policing. It is also known as "Citizen Police", which aims to integrate with the community and the precautionary principle as output to the difficulties of public security. This model of policing was suggested and enhanced, both in Brazil and in other countries, as the door to solving …
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Born to be Blue? The Constructing of Canadian Police Officers’ Identity
Police professionals navigate competing conceptions of what it means to be a police officer, giving rise to a unique police identity crisis (Hunt, 2021; Pickett et al., 2022). Given the dynamic nature of personal and professional self-identity, this crisis can be examined through discursive …
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A Case Study Analysis of How Public Order Policing is Interpreted and Practised in South Wales
… great scrutiny. A review of how the Metropolitan Police Service managed the protests suggested a predilection towards forceful tactics and a strict enforcement of the ‘law’. New guidelines issued in 2010 appeared to consider contemporary academic research that included an enhanced understanding of …
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