CLJ 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Command Hierarchy, Ideal Type, Social Control
9 Apr 2016
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Paramilitary bureaucratic structure and recruit training. The above produces an us versus them culture. An central component of all definitions: difference. Strip individuality and embrace the group or collectivity. Recruits highly receptive to this aspect of organizational culture. War stories significant part of the academy training. Captures attention of recruits better than anything else. Shows what is truly valued in police work and police culture. Through these stories recruits being to understand the nature of policing and how they"re supposed to act. Classic on police culture john van maanen. Category that is part of every officers vocabulary. And do not accept the police definition of the situation. Assholes are the most important of these for our purposes. They tend to be treated harshly on the basis of their failure to meet police expectations from the nature of the situation itself.
