Historical perspectives on democratic police reform: Institutional memory, narratives and ritual in the post-war Italian police, 1948–1963

The article analyses the occupational culture of the Italian Interior Ministry police after the Second World War, following the demise of Benito Mussolini's fascist dictatorship. In undertaking this, the article largely focuses on how the history, values and objectives of the post-war Italian p...

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Main Author: Dunnage, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Policing and society
Year: 2017, Volume: 27, Issue: 7, Pages: 797-812
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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