Ebook: Policing Images
Author: Mawby R. I
- Tags: Police-community relations -- Great Britain., Police -- Great Britain -- Public opinion., Police and mass media -- Great Britain., Police and mass media., Police-community relations., Police -- Public opinion., Great Britain., Criminology Penology & Juvenile Delinquency., Social Welfare & Social Work., Social Sciences.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken, Great Britain
- Language: English
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In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image. This book is concerned to document and to explain this image work, the activities in which the police engage that construct Read more...
Abstract: In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image. This book is concerned to document and to explain this image work, the activities in which the police engage that construct and project images of policing. Drawing upon first-hand research with the police themselves (including such examples as the way the South Yorkshire Police handled the Min