A Conceptual Analysis of the Hidden Curriculum of Police Training in England and Wales

White, David

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“…Garcia (2005) for example, has shown that police officers value crime fighting work higher than public order maintenance and the provision of social service. White (2006) analyzes the 'hidden curriculum' in police training in England and Wales and concludes that police training reinforces traditional cultural prejudices and inhibits major change programs. Silvestri (2007), although her focus is on organizational change in policing and on women's and leaders' roles in such processes, concludes that 'the pace of change within the police organization remains frustratingly slow' even if 'there are some grounds for optimism ' (p. 55).…”

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Learning to be a police officer. Tradition and change in the training and professional lives of police officers

Karp

Stenmark

2011

Police Practice and Research

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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness of a model for empirical studies of conservative and innovative forces in police training and the professional lives of police officers. The model is based on frame factor theory and is demonstrated against Swedish police research and the authors' own observations and experiences of the Swedish police organization and police training. The authors conclude that the model can be used to describe and understand the everyday practice that police students and new police officers encounter and adopt. In particular, the model can help to identify and describe the tension fields that individual police students and police officers must learn to navigate. Thus, empirical studies using the model may contribute to a deeper understanding of police officers' individual and collective attitudes to the conservation and the development of day-to-day practice in police training and the police profession.

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Learning to be a police officer. Tradition and change in the training and professional lives of police officers

Karp

Stenmark

2011

Police Practice and Research

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“…During the socialization process, recruits experience shifts in self-concept, attitude, and moral relativism that parallel the perspectives of active officers (Catlin & Maupin, 2004;Stradling, Crowe, & Tuohy, 1993). Additionally, the informal curriculum promotes values that are contrary to the formal training as well as the recruit's initial idealism, motivation, and commitment (Haar, 2005;White, 2006).…”

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Weak links and warrior hearts: a framework for judging self andothersin police training

Conti

2011

Police Practice and Research

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This paper examines professional socialization within a metropolitan police academy in the USA. Specifically, the research documents how the normative orders of the occupational culture come to function as a framework used to either stigmatize or idealize fellow recruits. A series of narratives regarding and reactions to particular events in the training serve as examples that detail the manner by which recruits internalize the occupational culture as they evolve through the training. The paper also discusses how recruits are eventually able to utilize their burgeoning understanding of normative orders to discredit police administrators and the training structure itself. IntroductionThis research seeks to understand the cultural transmission of outdated notions within policing. The paper presents an ethnographic analysis of narratives and group reactions that develop over the course of police academy training. It focuses on both formal and informal structures within the training environment that promote traditional notions of masculinity and police work, within an incoming cohort of recruits. Specifically, the analysis is geared to generate insight into how particular characteristics come to be either stigmatized or idealized within the occupation.

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“…So why should the training requirements of police officers be a barrier to developing a university programme of study that can achieve these training needs, whilst at the same time achieving other objectives? As White (2006) notes, combining skills based and academic learning is less problematic in other areas such as medicine, education and engineering. Likewise, despite Beckley's (2004, p.1) claim that 'it has finally been established that the profession of policing is competency based', there are surely other qualities that police officers need to demonstrate today.…”

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The Future of Initial Police Training: A University Perspective

Wood¹,

Tong²

2009

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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A recurring issue in the initial training of police recruits in England and Wales concerns the status of student police officers. This position paper engages with debates concerning this aspect of initial police training from a university perspective by reflecting on the experiences gained over a three and a half year period of delivering a Student Officer Programme (SOP), a joint collaboration between a University Department and a UK police service. As such it should be read as a comment piece that aims primarily to stimulate debate. Although not an empirical research piece, the paper nonetheless engages with the experiences that have been borne out of the collaborative running of the SOP. The paper presents a philosophical analysis of one particular aspect of that experience, namely the tension that arises from the contradictory status of student police officers.

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A Conceptual Analysis of the Hidden Curriculum of Police Training in England and Wales

Cited by 43 publications

References 25 publications

Learning to be a police officer. Tradition and change in the training and professional lives of police officers

Learning to be a police officer. Tradition and change in the training and professional lives of police officers

Weak links and warrior hearts: a framework for judging self andothersin police training

The Future of Initial Police Training: A University Perspective

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