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CONSERVATISM, DOGMATISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN BRITISH POLICE

01 January 1991

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CONSERVATISM, DOGMATISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN BRITISH POLICE
OFFICERS refdoc May=1991
JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 82-1865
A M COLMAN L P GORMAN
SOCIOLOGY, FEB 1982 16(1) PP1-11

PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF AN ATTITUDE SURVEY OF 48 POLICE
RECRUITS AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF BASIC TRAINING,
36 PROBATIONER CONSTABLES WITH AN AVERAGE OF 20 MONTHS'
EXPERIENCE, AND 30 CONTROL SUBJECTS MATCHED WITH THE POLICE
GROUPS IN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. SHOWS THE POLICE SUBJECTS TO BE
SIGNIFICANTLY MORE AUTHORITARIAN AND ILLIBERAL AND THAT BASIC
TRAINING HAS ONLY A TEMPORARY LIBERALISING EFFECT. EMPHASISES
ATTITUDES ON THE DEATH PENALTY AND COLOURED
IMMIGRATION. 16 REFERENCES

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