Different styles of policing: discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and Germany

Op de grens van het vreemdelingentoezicht: discretionaire beslissingen binnen het Mobiel Toezicht Veiligheid

“…Ook zijn zogenoemde 'working rules', de interne cultuur van de politieorganisatie en informele normen en waarden van individuele agenten van invloed op de beslissingen om bijvoorbeeld iemand wel of niet te stoppen (Alpert, Macdonald & Dunham, 2005;Quinton, 2011;Stroshine, Alpert & Dunham, 2008). Er wordt in dat kader ook wel gewezen op de verschillende politiestijlen die agenten hebben en de invloed die dit heeft op hun optreden (De Maillard, Hunold, Roché & Oberwittler, 2016;Kleijer-Kool, 2010;Van der Torre, 1999;Wilson, 1978). Terpstra en Schaap (2011) onderscheiden in de Nederlandse context drie verschillende politiestijlen: ordehandhaver/dienstverlener, crime fighter en de professionele werkstijl.…”

The Value of the Arrest

“…We need to look internally, though, beyond the police-citizen dynamic, to truly understand policing behavior. Although the impulse may be to analyze how officers are consciously or unconsciously biased and discriminatory [Glaser 2014], or to more generally connect differences across police forces to national regulatory styles [de Maillard et al 2016], or even to connect behavior like stop-and-frisk to a social-order drive to discipline the populace [Ericson 1982; Bradford and Loader 2016], we need to concretely situate policing behaviors within their proximate institutional contexts, looking instead at how certain kinds of practices are encouraged by virtue of departmental incentive structures, training practices, and internal policy [Epp, Maynard-Moody and Haider-Markel 2014]. To truly understand what motivates police officers, we need to understand the specific patterning of core pressures and dynamics at play in their world, such as the particular configuration of the “culture of results” that motivates officers to go after easy arrests like immigration violations and low-level drug offences [Fassin 2013].…”

Trust in the Police and Police Legitimacy Through the Eyes of Teenagers

“…Section 3 contributes to literature on the impact of police-initiated contact on perceptions of police legitimacy (Bradford 2017, Bradford et al 2009, Delsol and Shiner 2015, Flacks 2017, Gau and Brunson 2010, Hough 2013, Maillard et al 2016, Murray and Harkin 2017, Sharp and Atherton 2007, Tyler and Fagan 2012. Focusing on the potentially asymmetrical effects of police contact (Skogan 2006), it is hypothesized that: contact with the police has a negative effect on legitimacy; that experiences of procedural unfairness especially damage perceptions of legitimacy; and that good experiences have either a small positive effect, or no effect at all.…”