FROM CULT OF MASCULINITY TO SMART MACHO: GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON POLICE OCCUPATIONAL CULTURE

Jennifer M. Brown

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This chapter’s discussion of the concept of occupational culture proposes that whilst operational policing and its management may have changed, the masculine ethos of police officers has not. The introduction of equality legislation, new managerialism in the public sector and initiatives in community policing presaged a potential transformation of policing by adoption of more co-operative and collaborative styles that might be held to be more feminine in orientation. Recent research suggests that attention to gender issues has not only slipped but has been eclipsed by demands of other diversity agenda. The claim is made that police occupational identity was and still is privileged by a masculine

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