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39 Crim. Just. Ethics 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/crimjeth39 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Justice Ethics, 2020 Vol. 39, No. 1, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2020.1746106 ) Routledge T wa s New Public Management and the Police Profession at Play CHRISTIN THEA WATHNE This article explores the ways in which competing institutional logics influence the knowledge base of the police, ideas about good police practice and organizational identities. A tension between the humanistic professional police logic and the instrumental New Public Management (NPM) logic is discussed in the context of policing. While the humanistic professional police logic gradually emerged in the 1960s and 70s, over the past twenty years the police force has been reformed in line with the NPM logic. Through qualitative interviews and a quantitative study of the police force, the article investigates the ways in which the ideas of what constitutes a normative good practice are shaped in relation to these two, opposing, logics. A central finding is that despite many years of NPM as the dominant steering logic, a humanistic professional logic persists. However, the shift towards the NPM logic transforms the knowledge base in a more evidence-oriented direction and affects the ideas of normative good practice, especially among police management. Keywords: New public management, police management, knowledge, social identity, institutional logic Introduction I propose to show in this article how a shift towards the New Public Manage- ment (NPM) logic in government changes the knowledge base in the police and affects the ideas of norma- tive good practice, especially among Christin Thea Wathne is a Research Pro- fessor and Research Director at Work Research Institute/Oslo Metropolitan Uni- versity in Norway. Email: wach@oslomet. no police management. The article explores how goal management con- tributes to change in the knowledge base, and why police managers are mostly affected. Many serving professions of the welfare state, such as doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers and police offi- cers, perform their roles in the context of tension between help and control. The characteristic professional gaze sustained by organizational identity influences how help and control in the © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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