Based on interviews with former police officers, this book
addresses two main issues. Firstly, the question of how the police
themselves viewed the priorities of the job and what they
considered their role to be. This is the first study to consider
this question and its implications for the style and content of
police work. Secondly, it challenges the view of the prewar period
as a "Golden Age", and shows that policing from the 1930s to the
1960s was not as unproblematic as has often been assumed. Police
violence and the fabrication of evidence were more prevalent than
the cosy image of the British TV series Dixon of Dock Green would
have us believe. The fact that this image often went unchallenged
has much to do with prevailing concepts of masculinity and with the
greater moral certitude of the police within a more stable and
stratified society.
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