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Using oral history to investigate police culture

Canterbury Christ Church University College, t.cockcroft{at}canterbury.ac.uk

This article focuses upon the use of oral history methodology in relation to studying the work of the police and, particularly, the culture or cultures of the police. An overview of oral history is followed by a discussion of the application of such techniques to investigating police work. This, in turn, is followed by an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of such methodological techniques when used in a piece of research which investigated the culture of the Metropolitan Police Force between the 1930s and 1960s.

Key Words: oral history • police culture • policing

Qualitative Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, 365-384 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1468794105054460


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