Linking confidence in the police with the performance of the police: Community policing can make a difference

Ren, Lei; Cao, Liqun; Lovrich, Nicholas P.; Gaffney, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.10.003

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“…Although the current work offers a limited perspective on juvenile reporting, it appears that reporting by "other" to "other officials" is indicative of the lack of trust among juveniles and law enforcement. Overall, community policing programs represent an avenue to improved crime detection and reporting [54].…”

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Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Rennison¹

2011

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Explorations of patterns of why and when citizens report crime to police are an important area of study in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Initial National Crime Survey data suggest that a substantial proportion of crime went unreported to the authorities (i.e., law enforcement reports as reflected by the Uniform Crime Reports). The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding about reporting violence against adolescents to the police. This research examines the extent and nature of reporting violence against juveniles to the police, and specifically focuses on how reporting differs between white, black, Asian and Hispanic adolescents. This area is important to investigate to ascertain whether all groups have equal access to the benefits of the Criminal Justice system. Additionally, understanding why adolescent victims or their agents fail to engage the criminal justice system in the wake of a violent victimization is relevant to the development of policy addressing weaknesses in the police response and the particular vulnerabilities of minority victims and their communities.

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Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Rennison¹

2011

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“…Although the single item of the global attitude has been found to be highly correlated with specific attitudes toward the police in the USA (Garcia and Cao, 2005), whether this relationship is transferable to the Taiwanese situation remains an empirical question. Finally, many salient variables, such as contextual variables and contact variables, that could explain confidence in the police are not available (Cao et al, 1996;Garcia and Cao, 2005;Ren et al 2005;Reisig and Parks, 1999;Sampson and Bartusch, 1998;Zhao et al, 2002). The merit of the data, however, is that the survey instruments are the same across nations and that they are comparable.…”

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“…Third, in the new era of community policing, confidence in the police has additional value. It may serve as one alternative measure of police effectiveness (Ren, et al, 2005). In a broad sense, public opinion may play a critical role in a society experiencing democratic transition.…”

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Confidence in the Police: Where does Taiwan Rank in the World?

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Dai

2006

Asian Criminology

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The study of public opinion toward the police in Taiwan has not, heretofore, included comparative research. The current study fills this void in the literature by analyzing the data from the World Values Surveys. It was found that Taiwanese confidence in the police was reasonably good for a society experiencing democratic transition. Although lower than many more mature democratic societies such as Finland and the USA, confidence in the police is among the top one-third of fifty countries and is significantly higher than those found in other Asian and European countries that also experienced democratic transition. Further regression analyses of data from the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan indicated that the differences between those three countries are substantive and cannot be explained away after the demographic social and attitudinal variables have been controlled.Keywords Confidence in the police . Cross-national public opinions . Democratic policing . Police in Korea, Philippines, and TaiwanSince the beginning of democratic transition, public polls have become one of the dominant social forces in Taiwan. Periodically, all major aspects of political life, including the police, are reflected in these polls. Academics have also paid more attention to public opinion (Tsai and Yang

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“…The issuance of traffic citations, when done in high numbers in a specific area and for a short duration of time, can decrease traffic accidents and traffic fatalities (Holland and Conner 1996;Newstead et al 2001). High traffic citation rates can also have a negative effect on local citizen attitudes toward the police (Chermak et al 2001;Ren et al 2005). It is important, therefore, for supervisors within police agencies to be able to control officer traffic citation productivity.…”

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Officer Attitudes and Management Influences on Police Work Productivity

Johnson

2010

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Police officers are afforded a high degree of discretion in the exercise of their authority, and the control of this discretion is an important issue. While it is assumed that individual officer attitudes and preferences shape their discretionary activity, these officers are also members of a paramilitary organization with leaders appointed over them. The present study explored the influence of both officer attitudes and supervisor influences to explain variation in officer traffic citation issuing rates. Hierarchical linear modeling was used with a sample of 312 patrol officers and 60 supervisors from 21 municipal police agencies. The results revealed that both officer occupational attitudes and supervisor influences (through informal rewards and behavior modeling) significantly influenced the degree to which officers issued traffic citations. The findings emphasize the need for both the supervision of officers and the shaping of officer attitudes in the control of officer discretion.

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Linking confidence in the police with the performance of the police: Community policing can make a difference

Cited by 195 publications

References 35 publications

Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Confidence in the Police: Where does Taiwan Rank in the World?

Officer Attitudes and Management Influences on Police Work Productivity

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