57 research outputs found
Field, capital and the policing habitus: nderstanding Bourdieu through The NYPD’s post-9/11 counterterrorism practices
This article extends existing Bourdieusian theory in criminology and
security literature through examining the practices of the New York City
Police Department in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. This article
makes several original contributions. First, it explores the resilient nature
of the policing habitus, extending Bourdieusian criminological findings
that habitus are entrenched and difficult to change. Second, this article
examines the way the resilient habitus drives subordinate factions to
displace dominant factions in a field’s established social hierarchy
through boundary-pushing practices, a concept previously unexamined in
Bourdieusian criminology. Drawing on original documentary analysis, this
article uses the illustrative example of the NYPD’s post-9/11
counterterrorism practices, exploring how it sought to displace the
existing social structure by using its aggressive policing habitus and an
infusion of ‘War on Terror’ capital to challenge the dominant position of
the FBI in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. The NYPD’s habitus
driven counterterrorism practices were novel and unprecedented,
creating strain with both the FBI and local communities
A thin-slice of institutionalised police brutality: a tradition of excessive force in the Chicago Police Department
In the Chicago Police Department, a sustained tradition of tolerating violent conduct has contributed to the fostering of a police culture in which the use of force is celebrated. Evidence suggests that there has been a historical reluctance to take action to discipline officers accused of misconduct – many of whom are highly decorated veterans of the Chicago Police Department. It is the contention of this article that the long-standing endorsement of excessive force in Chicago policing has compromised officers’ ability to thin-slice, a psychological process in which people are able to draw on their experiences and socio-cultural context to make quick decisions under pressure. Instead, officers are instinctively drawn to engage in misconduct as a means to an end, with the confidence that their actions will not attract the sanction of their superiors
The Development of a Collaborative Distance Learning Program to Facilitate Pediatric Problem-based Learning
Introduction. A team of pediatric educators at the University of Colorado School of Medicine teamed with faculty and graduate students from the University of Colorado-Denver to develop a prototype program to support medical students' learning of national pediatric curricular objectives, regardless of their clinical location and variable patient exposure. Description. This hybrid Web/CD-ROM program allows "virtual" problem -based learning teams composed of four to five students and a faculty member to collaborate asynchronously through a digital video patient case. One prototype case has been developed and funding has been secured to develop a bank of cases to support the national pediatric curriculum. Discussion. Cases delivered by digital video provide a rich medium for visual and auditory cues to patient evaluation, which in turn encourage the development of visual recognition skills needed in clinical practice. Such cases also model appropriate professional behavior and a..
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