Police, Organization, and Wellbeing

This book explores the role of social relations in the ways that people construct, mobilize and consume meaning about wellbeing in a police organization. It traverses ethnographic data and captures insights from individuals, revealing ideological-laden tensions across the hierarchy.

Jamie Ferrill is a lecturer at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, teaching across policing and criminal justice in Canada, the UK, and Australia. She has nearly a decade of law enforcement experience, having worked for the Canadian Federal Government prior to commencing an academic career.

Introduction, Part 1. Current Understandings of Wellbeing: Why Wellbeing Matters in Police Organisations, 1. Understanding the Experience of Wellbeing, 2. The Convergence of Wellbeing and Police Culture 3. The Role of Social Construction in Police Wellbeing: Theory and Implementation, Part 2. The Versions of Wellbeing in Police Organisations, 4. Ideological framing: How Interests and Agendas Drive Police Wellbeing, 5. The Construction, Mobilisation, Consumption, and Reconstruction of Wellbeing in Policing, 6. Modalities of Wellbeing Throughout the Police Hierarchy, 7. Organisational Implications, Conclusion and future direction