Title

Shedding Light On Police Culture: An Examination Of Officers’ Occupational Attitudes

Keywords

cluster analysis; officer attitudes; police; police culture; police subcultures

Abstract

Research on police culture has generally fallen within one of two competing camps—one that depicts culture as an occupational phenomenon that encompasses all police officers and one that focuses on officer differences. The latter conceptualization of police culture suggests subcultures (or at least segmentation) that bound or delimit the occupational culture. Using survey data collected as part of the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN) in two municipal police departments, the research reported here examines the similarities and differences among contemporary police officer attitudes in an effort to locate some of the boundaries of the occupational culture of police. Seven analytically distinct groups of officers are identified, suggesting that officers are responding to and coping with aspects of their occupational world in different ways. The findings call into question some of the assumptions associated with a monolithic police culture. © 2004, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Publication Title

Police Quarterly

Volume

7

Issue

2

Number of Pages

205-236

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611103257074

Socpus ID

84993782375 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84993782375

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