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The Value Gap between Police and Policed
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In this article, the authors describe a study on the value patterns of a midwestern municipal police force, and compare police values with those of representative samples of black and white Americans.Abstract:
This article describes a study on the value patterns of a midwestern municipal police force, and compares police values with those of representative samples of black and white Americans. The data on police values support the hypotheses that personality factors and social backgrounds are more important than occupational socialization in understanding police value systems. The police values are not necessarily representative of American value patterns, either black or white, suggesting that either more differential recruitment and/or more direct resocialization procedures are needed for improving police-citizen relations in this country. Language: enread more
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Police Encounters With Juveniles
Irving Piliavin,Scott Briar +1 more
TL;DR: In an observational study of police officers' contacts with juveniles, this paper found that wide discretion was exercised by policemen in dealing with youthful offeders, and the exercise of this discretion was affected by a few readily observable criteria, including boys' prior offense records, race, grooming, and demeanor.
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Values as Social Indicators of Poverty and Race Relations in America
Milton Rokeach,Seymour Parker +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the usefulness of values as social indicators of underlying social problems and found that considerable value differences do distinguish the rich from the poor, but not Negroes from whites, and that the differences found between the latter disappear when socioeconomic position is controlled.