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The Police Revolution

The Police Revolution

Evans, Peter

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing

Criminology

ISBN10: 1032453117
ISBN13: 9781032453118
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Where are the police going? Originally published in 1974, Peter Evans argues that their traditional relationship with the public was being dangerously threatened, a situation neither the police themselves nor the public wanted to see worsen.

In his analysis of the pressures and influences that were leading many policemen to question their role in society, Mr Evans looks first at the immense problems created for the police by increasingly violent and sophisticated crime, protest and terrorism. The attitudes of the police, he says, are in keeping with their nature. They are a minority, a semi-closed community, with astonishing records of long-serving families, giving police forces something of a tribal flavour. They have their own slang. Like miners, dockers or railwaymen, their jobs were established in Victorian times and are now faced with a rapid technological change - for the police, a 'revolution'. Yet there is one important difference: the police must remain manpower intensive, otherwise precious contact with the public is lost. They must also remain craftsmen, not become merely technicians.

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