This book brings together knowledge, debates and themes of police culture in one highly accessible resource to provide an overview of the key literature of the area.

1. Organizational and occupational cultures 2. Occupational culture and policing 3. Police culture: traditional approaches 4. Police culture(s): explaining variation 5. Researching police culture 6. Managing police culture

Tom Cockcroft is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His areas of publishing and research interest are criminal justice, policing and occupational culture.