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A Culture of Corruption:
Changing an Australian police service |
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Dixon,
D, (ed)
A Culture of Corruption: Changing an Australian police service
RRP $43.95 (including GST) ISBN 1876067101
Professor John Braithwaite's description of this forthcoming
title says it provides "distinctive insights on police corruption
seen through the revealing prism of the experience of NSW
.... a terrific book ... An outstanding line-up of authors
have performed to their usual standard here ... a wonderful
asset to the series ... the collection sustains a consistently
high standard" History, regulation and culture are key aspects
of policing. This book presents essays on them which are based
on research papers prepared for the Royal Commission into
the New South Wales Police Service by three of Australia's
leading police researchers: Janet Chan, David Dixon and Mark
Finnane. It concludes with a major reassessment by David Dixon
of the Royal Commission and of the reform process in the period
since its final Report. In providing critical analyses of
history, regulation, culture, and reform, this book contributes
significantly to the Australian and international policing
literature. The book follows a significant example of the
Royal Commission on criminal procedure and on criminal justice
in England and Wales, whose research papers have been highly
valued as contributions to both the reform process and to
the academic literature. It is intended as a resource for
policy-makers and professionals by providing a convenient
and critical introduction to the policing literature in Australia
and overseas and will be of interest to Australian and international
academics, researchers, and students in policing and criminal
justice, and public administration more generally. In addition,
the final chapter's review of the Royal Commission's Report
and of the subsequent reform process is a major contribution
to the continuing debate about the future of the New South
Wales Police Service.
CONTENTS
Introduction (David Dixon)
From Police Force to Police Service?
Aspects of the Recent History of the New South Wales Police
Service (Mark Finnane)
Issues in the Legal Regulation of Policing (David Dixon)
The Normative Structure of Policing (David Dixon)
Police Culture (Janet Chan)
Police reform?: Progress, regression and the Royal Commission
into the NSW Police Service (David Dixon)
Bibliography/ Index A Hawkins Press title
A Sydney Institute of Criminology Monograph
Publishing September 1999 ISBN 1876067101 PB approx 188pp
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