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9780198762898

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From reviews of An Inside Job: 'This is not simply the story of peculiar police practices; it is a wholly original account of how critical myths about the relative stability of our entire society were generated and maintained ... in these duplicitous days, we can only be grateful that here is one police notebook that has so evidently made it untouched to the outside world.' Laurie Taylor, New Statesman and Society

'This book, by a policeman turned anthropologist, applies the insights of one discipline to the beliefs and dogmas of another. The results are both hilarious and depressing.' Barbara Weinberger, Policy History Society Newsletter 25 `an extremely readable, even entertaining, book that should be read by anyone with an interest in the police' LCCJ Newsletter `In the Sticks will give readers interested in the culture of policing a good comparative account of the cultural systems in England and will lead the reader to conclude that it is not that different in the United States.' MAN `Excellent book ... It is a well written, and a well organized work, showing that rare, if not unique combination, of the skills of a trained police detective turned anthropologist and ethnographer ... It should be compulsory reading for all police officers. This account of a police world by a doctor of anthropology who was also a superintendent of police has much to offer the student, the practitioner, and the general reader, but above all to the leaders of the police service, and their political accomplices.' British Journal of Criminology

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Malcolm Young is a retired Police Superintendent

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