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Police behavior : a sociological perspective
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This article is published in Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.The article was published on 1980-01-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Police science & Sociological imagination.read more
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Police Control of Juveniles: A Replication
TL;DR: In 1970, Donald Black and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. as mentioned in this paper presented a series of eight propositions which they suggested provided the beginning of an empirical trait of the policing of juveniles.
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Exploring the dimensions of trust in the police among Chicago juveniles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between youths' trust in the police and their attitudes, beliefs, experiences, behaviors, and background characteristics, and found a relationship between vicarious experiences and trust and evidence for the negativity or asymmetrical bias that appeared in previous studies of police-citizen contacts.
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Police Decision Making in Wife Abuse: The Impact of Legal and Extralegal Factors
Pam Waaland,Stuart M. Keeley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of legal and extralegal information on patrol officers' decision-making policies for wife abuse was investigated using regression analysis, and individual differences in officers' propensity to arrest abusive husbands were also examined.
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The “Battle of Seattle” revisited: Or, seven views of a protest-zoning state
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider what it means for the state to zone the expression of dissent in such a fashion, and they extend and complicate Mitchell's notion of a "dialectic of public space" by outlining seven different perspectives from which one can view the protest-zoning state.
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Denunciation and Social Control
TL;DR: In the early years of the Spanish Inquisition (1486 to 1502) and Romanov Russia (1613 to 1649) as discussed by the authors, a large number of denunciations were reported.