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Week 2 - Cop Cultures and ZTP - Coggle Diagram
Week 2 - Cop Cultures and ZTP
Cop Culture
Slippery phenomenon
Beliefs, values, working practices, and informal rules that are sacred between officers
Reiner - The way police see the social world
Passed between generations
Distinguish between canteen culture (Waddington)
Distincitve about the police and dominant within the force
Not simply police attitudes or individual personality traits but distincive commonalities
Classic studies
Skolnick - Justice without trial
Holdaway - Participant Observation - Indisders
Lofus - Non-participant observation
Greaf - the Police in their own words
Key characteristics of CC
Sense of mission
Suspicion
Isolation and solidarity
Cynicism and pessimism
Machismo and predjudice
Conservatism
Creation of CC
Imported by joiners
From police work
Structual features of police function
Nature of work
Interactions
Social authority
Socialization
Problems of CC (Waddington)
Too simple
Does it shape behaviour
Not necessarily distinctive
Variations in CC - rank, specialism etc
Overly deterministic
Saying V Doing
Cultural shifts in wider society
Changing CC
Recrutiment
Training
Individual and organisational accountability
Meso Level
Wider Factors
BWT - Willson and Kelling
Effectivness of foot patrol
Disorder + Crime
Spirals of decline
Community control and order maintenance policing
ZTP in NYC
Policing NY style
Charismatic Leadership, media management, quality of life policing developed accountability
COMPSAT - performance
ZTP In the UK
Limited applications
BWT - political rhetoric
Symbolic use of ZT terminology
Changes in policy and policing - ASBOs, respect agenda, crime and disorder act 1998, ASB act 2003
Assessing ZTP
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Symbolic value
Crime reduction
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Limited impact
Symptoms not causes
Police brutality and community relations - labeling