Connecting Work To Workers’ Social Past

A Dispositional Analysis of Police Work

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ID8401637
AuthorsDavid Pichonnaz (0000-0003-2066-8705, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume61
Issue1
Pages123-142
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azaa052
OpenAlexW3044701919
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited47

This article explores the impact of experiences police officers went through before they joined the Force on how they see and perform their job. I propose a new approach to police culture and practices based on a Bourdieu-inspired model of analysis, which includes its subsequent development by Lahire’s ‘dispositional analysis’. The model looks at how dispositions interiorized—particularly through the experience of social mobility and gender socialization—have a great impact on how police officers see and perform their job. The results suggest that divisions within police culture, long acknowledged by criminologists and sociologists, can be explained by the prior socialization of police officers

Criminology · Socialization · Sociology · Work (physics) · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology

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