RT Article
T1 `Stop or Íll Call The Police!́ The Idea of Police, or the Effects of Police Encounters Over Time
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 46
IS 2
SP 234
OP 257
A1 Proença Júnior, Domício 1960-
A2 Muniz, Jacqueline
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639318410
AB This article develops Bittner's (1974) theory of the police by considering the effect of police encounters over time. It argues that the expectation that the police will intervene whenever called establishes the idea of police' in the public, and how this makes the idea of police a pre-eminent factor in the preservation of law and order in democratic societies. The idea of police' is then applied exploratorily to the results of the Kansas City and Newark Patrol Experiments and for the quasi-experimental' dynamics of Brazil's 1997 police strike, demonstrating its explanatory value. In conclusion, this article argues that the preservation of the idea of police is the paramount concern for police policy and management
K1 Polizeiintervention
K1 Polizei
K1 Law and Order
K1 Bürger-Polizei-Verhältnis
K1 Glaubwürdigkeit
K1 Vertrauen
K1 Öffentliche Meinung
DO 10.1093/bjc/azi072