The Making of a Police Officer
Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers who are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police students career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project, following police students in seven European countries. The unique data material makes it possible to explore a wide range of topics relevant to the future development of policing, police education and police science more generally.
shows the social impact of police education by examining students orientations towards emerging competence areas; students career aspirations; and students attitudes concerning trust, cynicism and legalism.
The overall results show that police students are strikingly similar across different types of police education. Students in academic institutions are at least as interested in street patrolling as students in vocational training institutions. Gender and recruitment policies matters more in relation to career preferences than education models. The national context plays a more important role than the type of police education system. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology, sociology, social theory and cultural studies and those interested in how police education shapes its graduates.
Tore Bjrgo 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 the 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.
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Contents
PART I
Police education in seven European countries
TORE BJRGO AND MARIE-LOUISE DAMEN
KJERSTI HOVE AND LOLA VALLS
PART II
Selecting police students
RASMUS JUUL MBERG
GUMUNDUR ODDSSON, ANDREW PAUL HILL, LAFUR RN BRAGASON, RODDUR BJARNASON AND KJARTAN LAFSSON
GUNNAR THOMASSEN
PL WINNSS, MARIE-LOUISE DAMEN AND GUNNAR THOMASSEN
PART III
Shaping police students
STAFFAN KARP, KIRSI KOHLSTRM, OSCAR RANTATALO AND MOJGAN PADYAB
RASMUS JUUL MBERG AND MARIE-LOUISE DAMEN
GUNNAR THOMASSEN AND JON STRYPE
SILJE BRINGSRUD FEKJR AND OTTO PETERSSON
MARIE-LOUISE DAMEN AND TORE BJRGO
Guide
Tore Bjrgo 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 the 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.
roddur Bjarnason is a professor of Sociology at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He holds a MA from the University of Essex and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include the regional impact of higher education, patterns of inclusion and exclusion, adolescent well-being, and the causes and consequences of geographical mobility. His publications include recent contributions to the Icelandic journals slenska jflagi, Netla, and Tmarit um viskipti og efnahagsml, and the international journals Child Care Health and Development, Drug and Alcohol Review, Journal of Rural Studies, International Journal of Circumpolar Health, and Sociologia Ruralis.
Tore Bjrgo 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 and has been leading it since its start in 2008. He has published extensively in the fields of violent extremism and terrorism, criminal gangs, crime prevention, policing and vigilantism. Among his recent works are