NCJ Number
118600
Editor(s)
M Weatheritt
Date Published
1989
Length
184 pages
Annotation
Papers from a 1985 British conference on the future of police research focus on the context and politics of police research, police culture and organization, and regulating the police.
Abstract
The first paper pertaining to the context and politics of police research in Britain presents a provisional framework for examining the development of police research over the past 30 years, followed by a paper that reviews some of the ways in which Home Office research has contributed to the development of effective police management principles. Other papers in this section address the methodology and outcomes of police-sponsored research and the progress and pitfalls in using public surveys in determining the demand for policing and police performance. Four papers review research on police culture and police organization. One paper reviews the literature on the occupational culture of British policing and charts its intellectual bases in social theory, comparing earlier principles for police research with those underlying current police research. Other papers examine appropriate ways of analyzing how police officers handle encounters with citizens, and issues that British sergeants face in supervising the way their constables deal with paperwork. Papers which concern the regulation of police examine police decisionmaking, regulation and policing by code, and current developments and future prospects in implementing police accountability. Chapter notes and references. For individual papers, see NCJ-118601-09.