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CHANGING POLICE CULTURE: Policing in a Multicultural Society. By Janet B. L Chan. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi, 255 pp. (Tables.) US$59.95, cloth. ISBN$521-56420-4.
THE STATE of policing reflects the social condition of society itself. Janet Chan's new book about changes and reform of the New South Wales Police Service is topical and of real significance in Australia's largest metropolis in the 1990s. On the evening of October 17, 1998, Edward Lee, a fourteen-- year-old schoolboy and son of Korean migrants, was walking with four friends to a thirteen-year-old girl's birthday party in the western Sydney suburb of Punchbowl when he was attacked by a local gang. Edward was stabbed to death, murdered apparently because the five boys had gone to the wrong street address. This incident, just one among many examples of...