Rice, L. (2024) From acculturation to transculturation?: Police culture change in the pluralised crime investigation department. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 64 (1). pp. 70-87. ISSN 0007-0955
Abstract
This article uses the concept of transculturation (Ortiz 1944) as a lens to examine the effects of civilianization on the (re)production of ‘detective culture’ in two police forces in England. It critiques acculturation as the principal framework for understanding the complexity of cultural (ex)change processes happening within pluralized police settings. By bridging police studies with postcolonial theory, this article provides an innovative account of cultural (re)production under conditions of modernization, specifically, within the context of contemporary crime investigation. The original findings presented reveal the subtle yet active role played by civilian investigators in this process. The article concludes by challenging criminologists to explore the explanatory potential of transculturation in other areas of criminal justice, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Law (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2023 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2024 14:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/bjc/azad014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198097 |