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Showing 1 to 20 of 1901 for “"police"”.
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Police: Male police officers' attitudes toward their female counterparts in the Windsor Police Services (Ontario).
The attitude of male police officers toward their female counterparts within the Windsor Police Services was the focus of the research. It was proposed that male police officers would hold traditional and negative views toward female police officers. Secondly, the research also proposed that male …
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Police Militarization: Attitudes Towards the Militarization of the American Police
<p>Police militarization is a critical contemporary issue in the criminal justice field; however, only a minor amount of research exists on this issue. Almost no research exists on public attitudes toward police militarization, which is very important given the social context. A contextual …
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Communicating police-involved deaths: a mixed-methods exploration of Canadian police agencies’ Twitter strategies and perceptions of police
Despite increasing demands for police transparency and accountability regarding police-involved deaths (PIDs), minimal research to date has explored how police agencies utilize social media to communicate these events and little research has explored how the public perceives police statements that …
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The Influence of Individual Characteristics on Police Cynicism and Police Job Satisfaction
Police cynicism was first defined and explored by Niederhoffer (1967). Cynicism has since been attributed as a negative characteristic that is considered an inevitable outcome of the police profession (Caplan, 2003; Graves, 1996; Niederrhoffer, 1967). This negative characteristic of the police …
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Policing the Police: Conflict Theory and Police Violence in a Racialized Society
… allows for the first longitudinal analysis of police homicides as a social control outcome, which produces mixed findings on racial and economic threats. As in previous research, purely economic conflict predictions find little support while racial threat hypotheses are at least partially …
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Police Use of Deadly Force: A Look at the Birmingham Police Department.
… is well aware of the use of deadly force by police. Daily, news programs carry images of such violence in vivid color. Whether the force exhibited by police officers in the course of their work is excessive is a question for which an answer is sought in every phase of the political system. …
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Turkish police perceptions and attitudes toward using computer technology in police cars
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Criminal Justice, 2006
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Institutional Development, Police Practice and Gender Politics in the Colombian National Police
… of policing research, the Colombian National Police (CNP) has remained largely unstudied. The present study is a foundational analysis of the CNP. In order to explore that institution in all its complexity—from both a historical and a current, empirical perspective—several types of data and …
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Police perception of danger
… between danger, stress, and the well-being of police officers. Still, gaps remain in understanding officers' perceptions of danger. This study addresses these gaps by exploring the concept of subjective danger perception, a cognitive and emotional response to potential physical or psychological …
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Police culture and organisation
The British police has become a more controversial institution over the last 30 years, during which period the interest of social scientists in the nature of policing has intensified accordingly. As knowledge has accumulated, researchers have increasingly sought to influence the policy-making …
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Democratization and police reform
This paper compares police reforms during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research …
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Studies of police radar
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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Evaluating Police Presence and Police Stops in Schools: Outcomes for Adolescent Mental Health
Police and school partnerships have grown exponentially over the past 20 years. However, research examining the impact of school policing has primarily focused on aspects of school safety. The current study extends the literature beyond feelings of safety to consider the mental health outcomes of …
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The emergence of modern civil police in Scotland: a case study of the police and systems of police in Edinburghshire 1800-1833
The Police in Britain have been a focus for academic research over a number of decades but there is a dearth of historic authority about the service north of the border. Lack of information is lamentable, for Scotland through its own legal institutions entrenched in the Treaty of Union, has …
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Teaching police cultural diversity: using action research to improve the Midwest Police Academy's preparation of recruits to police in a diverse society
… Schlosser (2011) studied how the Midwest Police Academy (a pseudonym) prepared recruits to work in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This study took Schlosser’s recommendations and developed an Action Research project to attempt to improve the cultural diversity training at the …
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Gender dimension of representation of Police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service
… to promote gender equality even in Zambia Police Service. However gender equality in high ranks in Zambia Police Service is far from being a reality. Statistics obtained from police records reveal low levels of representation of female police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service. …
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Gender dimension of representation of Police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service
… to promote gender equality even in Zambia Police Service. However gender equality in high ranks in Zambia Police Service is far from being a reality. Statistics obtained from police records reveal low levels of representation of female police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service. …
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