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Police Community Support Officers: Cultures and Identities within Pluralised Policing
An analysis of findings from a comprehensive observational study of police community support officers (PCSOs), examining the distinct culture of PCSOs, what relationships between PCSOs and police officers are like within a rapidly diversifying organisation, and how this develops the policing pluralisation discourse.
| Author(s) | By Megan O'Neill (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 192 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 25 Apr 2019 |
| Availability | Out of stock |
An analysis of findings from a comprehensive observational study of police community support officers (PCSOs), examining the distinct culture of PCSOs, what relationships between PCSOs and police officers are like within a rapidly diversifying organisation, and how this develops the policing pluralisation discourse.
Context 1: The widening police family, community policing and police culture 2: Researching PCSOs in England and Wales The PCSO 3: What do PCSOs do? 4: Becoming a PCSO and being institutionally undermined 5: Police family dynamics Analysis 6: PCSO
Dr Megan O'Neill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of Dundee and an Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR). She was previously the Chair of the Policing Network of the British Society
