NCJ Number
100917
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1985) Pages: 198-213
Date Published
1985
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Using Etzioni's model of compliance and attitudinal types as a framework, this study tests a number of hypotheses about the changing attitudes of officers within the Greater Manchester Police.
Abstract
The findings show complex and sometimes contradictory patterns of change underlying a general upholding of ''moral types' of attachment to the police service. Moral attitudes are accompanied by increasingly cumulative tendencies among certain types (the better educated) and more recently recruited -- though this is expressed more in terms of career ambitions and psychological gratification than narrow financial reward. There is evidence of attitudes brought in and sustained by individual officers and of post-entry police socialization bringing shifts of attitudes in both directions as some officers become more and others become less strongly attached to the police service. These changes are accounted for by a variety of interconnected factors, having a number of implications for styles of management control. (Publisher abstract)