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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"perceptions of the police"”.
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The Relationship Between Community Policing, Police Profiling And Brutality, And How It Relates To Minority Communities’ Perceptions Of Police
<p>Ethnic communities in the United States are at a greater risk of police-related mortality and experiencing racial profiling by the police and are more likely to report negative perceptions of the police than White Americans. Community policing has been proposed as a viable solution to this …
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Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky
<p>Prior research has consistently demonstrated the role of race in understanding racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of the police. This research has overwhelmingly shown that Blacks and Latinos hold lower levels of trust and confidence in the police than do Whites and other racial …
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Policing With A Double-Edged Sword: The Associations Between Neighborhood Deprivation, Coping & Substance Use Among Black & Latiné Families
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated systemic racial inequities among Black and Latiné communities, increasing daily stressors such as exposure to violence, racial discrimination, and negative perceptions of the police. Social constraints from quarantining and social distancing have weakened …
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Peace through the metaphor of war from police pacification to governance transformation in Rio de Janeiro
The history of the military police in Rio de Janeiro is a history of violence. Police violence peaked during the democratic era when they have killed more civilians annually than the total disappeared during the military dictatorship. Their violence unduly targets the urban poor, those living in …
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The thick blue wall: a socio-historical analysis of police accountability in the Republic of Ireland
The powers afforded to public police in liberal democratic societies to perform their functions of investigating crime and maintaining social order, inherently raise tensions concerning the use of those powers, conflicts with the liberty of citizens, and accountability for these powers. 1n the …
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Perceptions of the role and function of the Venda police
The police role appears to be a controversial issue since the evolution of modem policing in Great Britain with the establishment of the Metropolitan Police under the leadership of Sir Robert Peel in 1829. The South African Police Service. and in particular the erstwhile Venda police. are no …
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Policing Incidents of Domestic Abuse Involving Children: Children’s and Police Officers’ Experiences
… (EI) (Goleman, 1996); and how EI may mediate police-child interactions at incidents of domestic abuse (DA). <br/><br/>Background: It is now widely accepted that very few children and young people (CYP) living with DA remain unaffected, the effects of which may be carried into adulthood …
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Community policing in Nigeria: an ethnography of police experiences, actions, and practices
Since its inception in 2004, the implementation of community policing has been regarded to as a failed strategy, (Ado-Siro, 2016; Ikuteyijo 2014; Johnson 2013; Arisukwu & Okunola 2013; Okesola & Mudaire 2013; Ejiogu 2011). As a result, there has been an ongoing debate within police studies as to …