This paper explores the slow pace of change within police organizations. It examines some possible reasons for this … police. The paper argues that effective police transformation may require a more radical challenge of established police … culture. Such a challenge, it is argued, may be generated by'dissident' police groupings which defy existing police practice …

As with so much of the sociological literature on the public police, the bulk of the research on police deviance has … police corruption, so that although there is a considerable literature on this one aspect of police deviance, there is … aspect of police deviance, namely, organisational deviance …