Abstract
The earlier examination of recruitment amply demonstrates the way in which local autonomy and the consequent discretion allowed in recruitment and selection can generate informal organisational practices which circumvent the equal opportunities legislation. The effect of this is, as we have seen, to restrict the number of women joining the service. This chapter is concerned with what happens to those men and women who do become police officers, and examines the experience of doing ‘the job’.
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See, for example, Manning, P. J., Police Work: The Social Organisation of Policing (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1977); and, for an account of how this mainstream action-oriented approach influences police attitudes to white collar crimes, see Levi, M., The Phantom Capitalists (London: Heinemann, 1981).
See, for example, Manning, P. J., Police Work: The Social Organisation of Policing (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1977); and, for an account of how this mainstream action-oriented approach influences police attitudes to white collar crimes, see Levi, M., The Phantom Capitalists (London: Heinemann, 1981).
Chambers, G. and Millar, A., Investigating Sexual Assault (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1983) p. 117.
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Jones, S. (1986). Doing ‘the Job’. In: Policewomen and Equality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18452-1_4
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