The Police as Societal Moral Agents: “Procedural Justice” and the Analysis of Police Fiction

Dirikx, Astrid; Bulck, Jan Van den; Parmentier, Stephan

doi:10.1080/08838151.2011.651187

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“…Nonetheless, it is important for future studies to elaborate on the differential impact of the media depending on the type of media content (Choi, 2018). Previous studies have revealed that there are patterns of representation of the police in fictional cop and crime shows (Dirikx et al, 2012; Eschholz et al, 2004). Fictional crime dramas tend to depict the police as very effective in solving crimes and apprehending offenders (Britto et al, 2007; Eschholz et al, 2004).…”

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“…By contrast, the expressive model assumes that citizens’ perceptions of the police are shaped less by police performance and more by their judgments about norms and values in their communities (Dirikx et al, 2012; Jackson and Sunshine, 2007). Building on neo-Durkheimian insights into the function of crime as a marker of moral structure, Jackson and Sunshine (2007) explain that citizens are more concerned about neighborhood stability and breakdown than crime (see also, Jackson et al, 2009).…”

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“…Using the National Crime Survey conducted during 1974and 1975, Liska and Baccaglini (1990 found that people who are exposed to media that exaggerated local crime perceived their neighborhood as dangerous. People who become sensitive to community incivilities through differential media consumption may believe that community norms or social control have declined Jackson and Sunshine, 2007), and are more likely to hold a negative view of the police, who they suspect are not doing their job as defenders of moral structure in the community (Dirikx et al, 2012). Similarly, fear of crime is a key variable that represents the instrumental model.…”

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Direct and indirect effects of crime-related media consumption on public confidence in the police

Choi

Yim²,

Hicks

2019

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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This study explores the potential links between crime-related media consumption and confidence in the police based on instrumental and expressive models. Drawing on data from a large sample of South Koreans, direct and indirect effects of crime-related media consumption on perceptions of the police are examined using regression-based multiple mediation analysis. Results showed that although there is no direct effect of media consumption on confidence in the police, crime-related media consumption is significantly and negatively associated with public confidence in the police via perceived incivilities and fear of crime. This study suggests that the police should make a constant effort to develop strategies to enhance communication with the public.

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Direct and indirect effects of crime-related media consumption on public confidence in the police

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Hicks

2019

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…Joseph Dominick found that in 1971, “only 11% [of fictional police officers] used illegal or questionable means to gather evidence or solve a crime” (247). A more recent study of CBS procedural dramas, including NCIS , “found on average one violation of trustworthy or respectful police behavior per episode,” but these violations were generally portrayed as acceptable “based on the police officer's desire to get the job done” (Dirikx, Van den Bulck, and Parmentier 49).…”

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Sins of the Father: NCIS and the Family at Work

Gallagher¹

2016

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Fictional representations of policing through, for example, TV series and movies, often portray police culture. While the accuracy of these portrayals may be questionable, some police shows depict police deviance and misconduct (e.g., rule-bending) as an essential part of effective policing ( Dirikx et al, 2012 ). In view of this, we conjectured that asking students to wear a police-style uniform might prompt them to embody the social identity of a police officer (including the components of police culture as represented through the media).…”

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Students Wearing Police Uniforms Exhibit Biased Attention toward Individuals Wearing Hoodies

Civile

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Police provide an essential public service and they often operate in difficult circumstances, requiring high-speed cognition. Recent incidents involving apparent profiling and aggressive behavior have led to accusations that the police are sometimes biased. Given that previous research has shown a link between clothing and cognition, we investigated the question of whether the police uniform itself might induce a bias in social attention. To address this question, and using a Canadian university student sample, we assessed whether wearing a police uniform biases attention toward black faces compared to white faces, and low-status individuals compared to high-status individuals. In Experiment 1 (n = 28), participants wore either a police-style uniform or mechanic overalls, and performed a shape categorization task in the presence of a distractor that could be either: a black face, a white face, a person wearing a hoodie (whom we propose will be associated with low SES), or a person wearing a suit (whom we propose will be associated with high SES). Participants wearing the police-style uniform exhibited biased attention, indexed by slower reaction times (RTs), in the presence of low-SES images. In Experiment 2 (n = 28), we confirmed this bias using a modified Dot-Probe task – an alternate measure of attentional bias in which we observed faster RTs to a dot probe that was spatially aligned with a low SES image. Experiment 3 (n = 56) demonstrated that attentional bias toward low-SES targets appears only when participants wear the police-style uniform, and not when they are simply exposed to it – by having it placed on the desk in front of them. Our results demonstrate that wearing a police-style uniform biases attention toward low-SES targets. Thus, wearing a police-style uniform may induce a kind of “status-profiling” in which individuals from low-status groups become salient and capture attention. We note that our results are limited to university students and that it will be important to extend them to members of the community and law-enforcement officers. We discuss how uniforms might exert their effects on cognition by virtue of the power and cultural associations they evoke in the wearer.

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The Police as Societal Moral Agents: “Procedural Justice” and the Analysis of Police Fiction

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Direct and indirect effects of crime-related media consumption on public confidence in the police

Direct and indirect effects of crime-related media consumption on public confidence in the police

Sins of the Father: NCIS and the Family at Work

Students Wearing Police Uniforms Exhibit Biased Attention toward Individuals Wearing Hoodies

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