Police Culture: Histories, Orthodoxies, and New Horizons

Cockcroft, Tom

doi:10.1093/police/pax029

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“…Cop culture appears to be perceived as a predominantly negative concept by academics (Wilson et al, 2001). However, Cockcroft (2017) and Campeau (2015), acknowledge the more positive aspects of the culture, as essential towards the functioning of the police service. For example the process of social isolation within cop culture allows the police to operate more efficiently, unhindered by any emotional connection to their work (Cockcroft, 2017).…”

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“…However, Cockcroft (2017) and Campeau (2015), acknowledge the more positive aspects of the culture, as essential towards the functioning of the police service. For example the process of social isolation within cop culture allows the police to operate more efficiently, unhindered by any emotional connection to their work (Cockcroft, 2017). Whilst Waddington (1999:294), refers to a ‘canteen culture’, which operates as nothing more than bravado or story telling by the police and which is unreflective of any police actions out on the street.…”

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Exploring police culture and reform strategies post charing cross: Insights from the literature

Turner

2022

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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This paper examines cop culture and potential strategies for reform, following the publication of the Hotton Report at Charing Cross Police Station. This paper critically examines previous academic literature, to contribute to a highly topical matter. It also identifies strategies which have the potential to weaken an established and negative police culture, currently operating within the Metropolitan Police. Research findings within this paper, identify how cop culture remains a powerful mechanism within policing, acting as a barrier to reform. However, the findings also uncover that change is possible, through implementation of avenues involving education, increased diversity and transformational leadership.

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Exploring police culture and reform strategies post charing cross: Insights from the literature

Turner

2022

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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“…More extensive and better-quality communication between senior officers and the rank-and-file can help to facilitate dialogue and engagement (Hoggett et al 2014). The influence of police practitioners themselves, who have become more involved in the research field, is a development of crucial importance in enriching cultural understanding (Cockcroft 2017). All these things have contributed to reduced hierarchy and greater openness, with the aim of producing a more engaged and empowered police workforce; thus eroding the traditional hierarchical, conservative and insular nature of police culture.…”

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Police reform, austerity and ‘cop culture’: time to change the record?

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Williams

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Policing and Society

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is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth. His research interests include public sector employment relations and the political economy of the employment relations policies of recent UK governments. Dr Steve Williams is a Reader in Employment Relations in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth. His research interests include civil society organisations as employment relations actors and the employment relations policies of recent UK governments.

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“…One of the key features of recent academic work in the area of police culture has been that of social change and its associated cultural impact (Cockcroft, 2017). These forms of change, the social and the cultural, are notoriously difficult to substantiate or measure, but remain central to our understanding of the relationship between police culture and its wider social context.…”

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Institutional hybridity and cultural isomorphism in contemporary policing

Cockcroft

2019

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Recent work on policing has increasingly acknowledged the influence of a broad array of changes upon both the structure and culture of police organizations. Generally, however, literature and research have tended to focus attention onto those elements of the broader police environment that effect such developments, whereas little commentary, to date, has been directed towards those features which impact across the broader public sector. Through drawing on the concepts of ‘hybrid professionalism’ [Noordegraaf M (2015) Hybrid professionalism and beyond: (new) forms of public professionalism in changing organizational and societal contexts. Journal of Professions and Organization 2: 187–206] and ‘institutional isomorphism’ [DiMaggio PJ and Powell WW (1983) The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review 48: 147–160], this conceptual paper will argue that the impact of neoliberal ideology on the contemporary public sector has created a police organization for which professionalism increasingly denotes generic management skills that are common across different occupations and different police roles. In particular, it will be suggested that such institutional isomorphism may drive ideational responses commensurate with cultural change within police organizations. In short, therefore, the paper will make the case that, in parallel with changes already identified by other academics, broader structural changes may lead to a narrower and more generic set of cultural responses within contemporary police organizations.

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Police Culture: Histories, Orthodoxies, and New Horizons

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring police culture and reform strategies post charing cross: Insights from the literature

Exploring police culture and reform strategies post charing cross: Insights from the literature

Police reform, austerity and ‘cop culture’: time to change the record?

Institutional hybridity and cultural isomorphism in contemporary policing

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