This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape. An in-depth

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Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police cul

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The Politics of the Police offers a geographical and historical overview of the law and politics of the police. This fifth edition covers a wider range of empir