Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is ultimately enacted and experienced by citizens. While we know a great deal about bureaucrats and their actions, we know little abou…
Becoming Bureaucrats investigates the identities and motivations of two sets of public servants: police officers and welfare caseworkers. The book argues that who bureaucrats become and how bureaucracies function depends strongly on patterns of self-selection and recruitment.
For the first time ever, a book that portrays the metaphysical and spiritual elements of police work. Spirit of the Badge: 60 True Police Stories of Divine Guidance, Miracles, & Intuition is an inspirational collection of real-life accounts from active and retired police officer…
"Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize ent…
Police forces everywhere have been undergoing major social and organizational changes. This longitudinal study of police socialization examines the complex processes by which recruits adapt, redefine, cope with, and make sense of the positive and negative aspects of their traini…
Fair cop: learning the art of policing
by Devery, Chris, Doran, Sally, Chan, Janet B. L.
Publisher's description: Police forces everywhere have been undergoing major social and organizational changes. In this, one of the few longitudinal studies of police socialization, Janet Chan, Christopher Devery, and Sally Doran present the complexity of police socialization un…