Changing Police Culture
Policing in a Multicultural Society

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.

Janet B. L. Chan (Author)

9780521564557, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 March 1997

268 pages, 10 b/w illus. 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

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.

Introduction
1. Policing in a multicultural society
2. Discrimination and police work
3. Strategies for change
4. Re-examining police culture
5. Police and minorities in New South Wales
6. Under new management
7. The Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: the paper chase
8. Cop it Sweet: reform by media
9. Processes and outcomes of change
10. Changing police culture.

Subject Areas: Crime & criminology [JKV], Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies [JFSL1], Social issues & processes [JFF], Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]