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What is meant by the ‘occupational culture of policing’ (Fielding 1994) and does it matter?
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What is meant by the 'occupational culture of policing' (Fielding 1994) and does it matter? The 'occupational culture of policing' relates to the understanding of how police relate to the social world and their function within it. Police have the task of transferring the written law to that of practical police work and it this process that creates many of the characteristics of the 'police culture.' The boundary between written and practical police work leads to the subject of police discretion and how far it can stretch from the written law. Those to blame for this discretion can either be seen as those that write the law, whose principles leave the police only as robots, or the police who manipulate the law to their understanding and interpretation. However problematic legal rules can be they play an important role in police culture. Police culture is subject to the environment however certain traits...
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