Police Performance and State Rule: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion

Marenin, Otwin; Ames, Walter L.; Bayley, David H.; Brogden, Michael; Ericson, Richard V.; Hall, Stuart; Critcher, Chas; Jefferson, Tony; Clarke, John; Roberts, Brian; Harring, Sidney L.; Stead, Philip John; Steedman, Carolyn; Williams, Alan

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“…However, as states have learned, creating axiomatic security cannot be accomplished by the state alone (Dixon, 2007). One-sided approaches have most often employed abusive and repressive control mechanisms both in society and within police organizations (Marenin, 1985). These techniques impede axiomatic security and instead trade brief moments of internal security for long-term internal conflict, including revolutions and revolts (Loader & Walker, 2007).…”

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Boateng

Makin

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2014

International Criminal Justice Review

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Recognizing a gap in the African policing literature created due to the lack of research on police officers attitudes toward the public, the present study was conducted to bridge this gap by examining officers perceptions of the public and to determine whether such perceptions influence officers behavior on the street and their perception of effectiveness. Using a randomized sample of 145 police officers selected from five police districts in Accra, Ghana, the study found that police officers in Ghana generally hold negative views of the public they serve. Findings also revealed that officers perception of public cooperation significantly predict their behavior and perception of effectiveness in controlling crime in the community. However, officers perceptions of public recognition and compliance with the rule of law were not found to predict their behavior and perception of effectiveness. Policy implications of the findings were discussed.

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Boateng

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Yoo

2014

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…It has long been accepted that the social order reproduced by the police reflects the needs and expectations of the society that permits its operation (Marenin 1985). Further, much is known about the technically sophisticated policing found in rich industrialised societies such as the USA, UK, Japan and Australia, each of which exports its preferred style of policing to conflict-affected societies (Bayley 1990, Chan 1997, Reiner 2015).…”

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Police, clans and cash in Somalia

Hills

2022

Cult. Unbound

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This article explores the ways in which emergent police forces in conflict-affected Southern societies are shaped by cultural practices operating through social phenomena. It uses the record of the prototypical police forces found in the Somali cities of Kismayo and Baidoa, 2014-2017, to explore the ways in which culture, power relations and local realities — in this case, clan-based calculations, Somali and international politics, and physical insecurity — influence police development. It draws on the cities' experience of a donor-funded 'basic policing' programme to identify the motivating forces shaping police evolution in a society familiar with many aspects of conventional policing operations and vocabulary but positioned at the opposite end of the technical and institutional spectrum to those shaping police studies' canonical literature.

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“…There is no way to train for every context and situation any probation officer will encounter while performing his or her job duties, and thus they are taught to make autonomous decisions (Bradford & Pynes, 1999;Helsen & Starkes, 1999;Marenin, 2004), where they are awarded a great deal of decision-making discretion (Brogden, 2014;De Lint, 1998Marenin, 1985). The U.S. criminal justice system is founded on the principles of decentralized discretion, but this discretion may be a double-edged sword-while strict adherence to the letter of the law may be too punitive and impractical, allowing actors to choose which rule violators to sanction and how they should be punished opens the door for extraneous factors such as race to seep into their unconscious.…”

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A hidden cost of convenience: Disparate impacts of a program to reduce burden on probation officers and participants

Saunders

Midgette

Taylor

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Criminology & Public Policy

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Criminal justice practitioners increasingly seek out efficient means of community supervision supplanting face-to-face interactions with practices that are less onerous to administrators and clients. We examined the differential impact of remote supervision for low-risk probationers by race. Remote reporting greatly reduces or eliminates in-person meetings where race would be salient; however, it also creates conditions where an officer may rely more heavily on heuristics. We found the program drastically reduced violations, but also exacerbated the racial discrepancy in reporting high discretion violations. Policy Implication: The study illustrates how integrating an empirical test of racial discrepancies into program evaluation can illuminate conditions that amplify implicit bias. Our findings illustrate how a program with unequivocally positive outcomes for low-risk probationers overall can further amplify racial disparities, particularly when the probation officer has more discretion. By creating a statistically equivalent group of clients who receive probation-as-usual, our evaluation strategy measures this bias by comparing consequences for which an agent has high discretion against those for which they have low or no discretion for program participants. This approach is replicable across many criminal justice practices.

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Police Performance and State Rule: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion

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