This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within
our changing social economic and political landscape. An in-depth analysis and appreciation of
the police socialisation identity and culture literature is combined with a comprehensive
four-year longitudinal study of new recruits to a police force in England. The result offers
new insights into the development of and influences upon new police recruits who refer to
themselves as a new breed of police officer. Adding significantly to the police culture
literature this original and empirically based research also provides valuable insights into
the challenges of modern policing in an age of austerity. Scholars of policing and criminal
justice as well as police officers themselves will find this compelling reading.
