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Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities.
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This article is published in American Sociological Review.The article was published on 1969-08-01. It has received 212 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Order (business).read more
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Why the "Haves" Come out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change
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Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and the Effective Rule of Law
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that the key factor shaping public behavior is the fairness of the processes legal authorities use when dealing with members of the public, both during personal experiences with legal authorities and when community residents are making general evaluations of the law and of legal authorities.
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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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Neighborhood Context and Police Use of Force
TL;DR: This article examined the influence of neighborhood context on the level of force police exercise during police-suspect encounters using hierarchical linear modeling techniques and found that police officers are significantly more likely to use higher levels of force when suspects are encountered in disadvantaged neighborhoods and those with higher homicide rates, net of situational factors and officer-based determinants.
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Taking stock: Toward a richer understanding of police culture
TL;DR: A conceptual model of the police occupational culture is presented in this article that explains its causes, prescriptions, and outcomes, highlighting the complexity of culture, noting variation across organizations and within by rank and style.