02884nam 2200625Ia 450 991081669130332120200520144314.01-135-99594-X1-135-99587-71-135-11083-21-281-33180-597866113318011-84392-466-810.4324/9781843924661 (CKB)2460000000009678(EBL)483196(SSID)ssj0000306274(PQKBManifestationID)11195618(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306274(PQKBWorkID)10298393(PQKB)11353599(MiAaPQ)EBC483196(OCoLC)822561507(EXLCZ)99246000000000967820020930d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolicing images policing, communication and legitimacy /Rob C. Mawby1st ed.Cullompton, Devon, UK ;Portland, OR Willan Pub.20021 online resource (226 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-62783-4 1-903240-71-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.Prelims; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and tables; Introduction; 1. A history of police image work 1829-1987; 2. The professionalisation of police image work since 1987; 3. Police legitimacy, communication and the public sphere; 4. The national picture: systems of police image work; 5. One force and its image; 6. Press and public relations officers at work; 7. Image work in routine policing; 8. Image work, police work and legitimacy; References; IndexIn recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image. This book is concerned to document and to explain this image work, the activities in which the police engage that construct and project images of policing. Drawing upon first-hand research with the police themselves (including such examples as the way the South Yorkshire Police handled the MinPolice-community relationsGreat BritainPoliceGreat BritainPublic opinionPolice and mass mediaGreat BritainPolice-community relationsPolicePublic opinion.Police and mass media363.2/0941Mawby Rob C0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816691303321Policing images3971444UNINA