RT Article
T1 What’s in a Name? The Occupational Identity of Conservation and Natural Resource Oriented Law Enforcement Agencies
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 40
IS 4
SP 750
OP 764
A1 Patten, Ryan
A2 Crow, Matthew S.
A2 Shelley, Tara O’Connor
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/176420154X
AB This research explores: (1) the occupational identity of fish and wildlife police agencies and (2) considers an emerging concern that these agencies have widened their work priorities to include more traditional law enforcement. To investigate these issues a content analysis of state level law enforcement agency websites with a fish and wildlife focus is used to better understand how they self-identify (agency name and job titles), their mission statements, the scope of power sworn officers have (limited to special purpose or inclusive of general law enforcement powers), and the educational and training requirements to support their stated agency missions. The findings demonstrate fish and wildlife police agencies are engaged in a scope of work that supports a general law enforcement role. This study demonstrates many fish and wildlife police agencies and their officers appear to be transitioning roles into more generalized law enforcement officers, but this change is not universal.
K1 Occupational Identity
K1 Police
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 Fish and wildlife
K1 Natural resource
K1 Conservation
DO 10.1007/s12103-014-9286-y