Publications

Publication details [#14451]

Frewin, Karen and Keith Tuffin. 1998. Police status, conformity and internal pressure: a discursive analysis of police culture. Discourse & Society 9 (2) : 173–185.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | discourse analysis | ideology

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is illustrated how the social practices associated with police culture draw on three resources (police status, internal pressure and conformity) which, in turn, maintain police force ideologies and reputation.