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The Making of a Police Officer

Comparative Perspectives on Police Education and Recruitment

Herausgeber: Bjørgo, Tore; Damen, Marie-Louise

Beschreibung

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? These are some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project, following police students in seven European countries.

Autor

Tore Bjørgo is a professor at the University of Oslo and an adjunct professor of police science at the Norwegian Police University College. He is also director of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX). He initiated the RECPOL project in 2008 and has been leading it since the start until recently. He has published extensively in the fields of violent extremism and terrorism, criminal gangs, crime prevention, policing and vigilantism. Marie-Louise Damen is an associate professor in quantitative research methods at the Norwegian Police University College in Oslo. Her research interests are sociology of higher education, stratification, cultural sociology, social movements and research methodology. Since October 2017 she has been involved in the RECPOL-project and has gradually taken over as coordinator.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780367228668
• ISBN-10: 0367228661
• Artikelnr.: 58849749