Download or read book Worldwide Views on Police Discretion written by Yinthe Feys and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of the empirical research regarding police discretionary decision-making worldwide through 2022 by means of a scoping review. In total, eleven databases were searched and 15,193 publications have been assessed in terms of relevance for this topic, with 1,563 of these being assessed more thoroughly. The shortlist consists of 526 publications. It answers the following questions: What is the amount of available research concerning police decision-making and what are its characteristics? How and where is police decision-making studied? Which crime phenomena are studied? Which types of decisions are studied? Which factors impact police discretion? Overall, the scoping review summarizes the available empirical research on police discretion and helps understand police decision-making processes. These findings are then used to discuss the current scholarship and give recommendations concerning research (e.g. which decision-making processes/decisions are currently lacking in research, which factors need to be explored further, which research methods can be utilized more frequently) and police practice (i.e. how to support police officers in their decision-making and optimize these decision-making processes).
Download or read book Discretion in Criminal Justice written by Lloyd E. Ohlin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handled with Discretion written by John Kleinig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the nature of police discretion and its many varieties. The essays explore the kinds of judgment calls police officers frequently must make : When should they get involved? Whom should they watch? What constitutes a disturbance of the peace? What resources should be devoted to a situation? Does social welfare take precedence over law enforcement? Under what conditions, if any, may police officers engage in selective enforcement of the law? Each essay or pair of essays is followed by a response, presenting contradictory or supplementary views.
Download or read book Dimensions and Dynamics of Police Discretion written by Omar Jenhwa Ma and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law and Politics of Police Discretion written by Gregory Williams and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-12-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the discretional decision-making of U.S. police officers with respect to the decision to arrest. It finds that socioeconomic status, age, sex, and personal appearance are among the factors influencing police arrest decisions, as well as the background, prejudice, experience, and personality of the individual officer. It concludes that strong and coordinated efforts on the part of police, state and local government, and the judiciary, will be needed to implement guidelines to control arrest decisions.
Download or read book Police discretion written by Robert N. Brenner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Countries Count Crime written by John A. Eterno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens. In one compendium, for the first time, this book documents how different countries record (or fail to record) crimes. With chapters written by native authors who are experts on the practices of their respective countries, the book explores practices in 15 different countries across the globe. Organized with a parallel, country-by-country approach, the book describes and analyzes methods police use to record crimes, with the awareness that the counting of crimes is not only an issue of empirical measurement, but also one of social construction. Crime reporting practices vary widely by country. In some cases, reports are not taken, and in others, reports are carefully based on preliminary investigations. Willful manipulation of crime reports can and does occur, and the book explores related factors such as political pressure, personal ambition, community safety, and more. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter help the reader evaluate the significant issues influencing each country. The editors conclude by suggesting best practices for crime reporting and the collection of crime data. A unique addition to this book is a foreword by Tofiq Murshudlu, the Head of Drugs and Crime for the United Nations in Vienna. The book is intended for a wide range of audiences, including policing scholars, law enforcement and community leaders, and students of criminal justice.
Download or read book Police Discretion and the Enforcement of Traffic Law written by Frank Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Police Discretion in Contemporary America written by Bernice Brooks Young and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police officers legitimately have broad powers of discretion to enforce the law. Discretion is the capacity an individual police officer possesses to make a choice among a number of possible courses of actions. This thesis discusses police exercise of discretion and its relationship to the U.S. Constitution and the Criminal Justice field. It addresses the two most common interactions between police and citizens, the traffic stop and maintenance of order. It illustrates abuse of discretionary authority in the Rodney King case and the Kent State University shootings. This thesis will conclude by addressing the use of standards to help focus police training on proper use of discretion consistent with U.S. democratic values.
Download or read book The Invisible Justice System written by Burton Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Control of Police Discretion written by Thomas J. Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The control of police discretion written by Thomas J. Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Windows and Police Discretion written by George L. Kelling and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arrest Discretion of Police Officers written by Richard Groeneveld and published by Criminal Justicerecent Scholar. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groeneveld studies the conceptual and fundamental aspects of organizational influence over police discretion in field arrests. He finds that street-level discretion by field officer-the basis of community policing--can, and is, significantly affected by organizational structures. Most departments attempt to limit or at least delimit officer discretion in making arrests. Arrest issues are no less critical to policing than those pertaining to the use of deadly force. A comparatively small number of arrests results in any appreciable prosecution, and an even smaller number in conviction. The arrest decision process has represented a major gap in the conceptual area of discretion control, especially at the organizational level of scrutiny.
Download or read book Working the Street written by Michael K. Brown and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1988-10-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this provocative study examines the street-level decisions made by police, caught between a sometimes hostile community and a maze of departmental regulations. Probing the dynamics of three sample police departments, Brown reveals the factors that shape how officers wield their powers of discretion. Chief among these factors, he contends, is the highly bureaucratic organization of the modern police department. A new epilogue, prepared for this edition, focuses on the structure and operation of urban police forces in the 1980s. "Add this book to the short list of important analyses of the police at work....Places the difficult job of policing firmly within its political, organizational, and professional constraints...Worth reading and thinking about." —Crime & Delinquency "An excellent contribution...Adds significantly to our understanding of contemporary police." —Sociology "A critical analysis of policing as a social and political phenomenon....A major contribution." —Choice
Download or read book The Control of Police Discretion written by Thomas J. Aaron and published by Springfield, Ill. : Thomas. This book was released on 1966 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Police Discretion written by Kenneth Culp Davis and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
