Talking Cop

Discourses of Change and Policing Identities

Bibliographic Data

ID10389359
AuthorsAnnette Davies (0000-0002-5336-265X, Cardiff University), Robyn Thomas (0000-0002-7887-8679, Cardiff University)
Year2003
Volume81
Issue4
Pages681-699
Publication date2003-11-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Administration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3298 • E-ISSN: 1467-9299
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0033-3298.2003.00367.x
OpenAlexW2127212509
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited39

This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two‐year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within NPM that serve to challenge traditional understandings of policing organization and identities. The paper examines the implications of this for policies that promote community orientated policing (COP) and increased inter‐agency partnership. The paper argues that the promotion of a more progressive form of policing, based on community orientation and equality principles, may struggle to gain legitimacy within the current performance regime that legitimizes a competitive masculine subjectivity, with its emphasis on crime fighting

Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Empirical research · Epistemology · General partnership · Legitimacy · New public management · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research

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