RT Article
T1 Ferguson as a distal crisis
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 21
IS 1
SP 83
OP 105
A1 Jurek, Alicia L.
A2 Matusiak, Matthew C.
A2 King, William R.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1797135562
AB We explore how a widely publicized crisis in another jurisdiction, a distal crisis, affects police agencies that were far removed from the crisis. Using data from a two-wave, panel-design survey of 411 police chiefs in Texas, we investigate how the events occurring in Ferguson, Missouri during 2014 changed chiefs’ perceptions of their institutional environmental sectors. Although distant from Ferguson, in the immediate aftermath chiefs rated two (local and national media) of eight (federal, state, and local law enforcement organizations as well as elected officials, police employee associations, local emergency medical organizations, and local advocacy groups) institutional sectors (including local and national media) as less impactful or legitimate.
K1 ANCOVA
K1 Institutional organizational theory
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Naturalexperiment
K1 Police
K1 Stakeholders
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12568