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Why is the concept of 'occupational culture' important for an understanding of how police officers work?
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Why is the concept of 'occupational culture' important for an understanding of how police officers work? Interest in police culture has grown in recent years out of a concern that it is seen as one of the main obstacles in the way of police reform. The culture of the police - the values, norms, perspectives and craft rules - which inform their conduct is, of course, neither monolithic, universal nor unchanging. The concept of police culture in the criminological literature is loosely defined. Manning (1977: 143) refers to the 'core skills, cognition's, and affect' that define 'good police work'. It includes 'accepted practices, rules and principles of conduct that are situational applied, and generalized rationales and beliefs' (Manning 1889:360). Police culture is not, however, primarily negative. It is seen to be functional to the survival of police officers in an occupation considered to be dangerous, unpredictable, and alienating. The bond of solidarity between...
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