Studies In Crime And Law Enforcement In Major Metropolitan Areas Pt1 And 2

Author : Albert J. Reiss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Evaluations and images of owners and managers of businesses and organizations toward the police and police service written by Albert J. Reiss and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Section I. This report looks at the current systems of crime reporting contain some misconceptions about simple rates such as a crude crime rate. Proposals made for more specific measures of crime, on the need to identify the exposed population for which crime rates are calculated, the desirability of obtaining specific rates for both victims and offenders, and the need for developing statistical programs that provide information for the calculation of such rates are discussed. Statistics are given by way of illustration. -- Section II. Residents and business owners and managers were surveyed for their attitudes in two police districts of Boston, two in Chicago, and four in Washington, D.C. citizens who live in high crime rate areas do not perceive their neighborhoods as places where crime is a way of life. Their primary concern is with personal safety. This attitude overshadows their attitudes about police, which are generally positive. They repress crime rather than deal with its causes. They alter their behavior more than their attitudes and perceptions about the crime situation. Appendixes contain the survey instruments used. -- v. 2. Section I. This report looks at the determination of the extent to which certain factors influence the behavior of police officers and citizens toward one another. Factors related to the status and role of the citizen and the officer, their predispositions and behavior in encounters, the type of mobilization situation, and the department's policies and system of command and control were considered. Encounters in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., were observed for several weeks. The findings for both police-suspect and police-citizen encounters in terms of participant's race, social class, behavior, exhibited prejudice and demeanor are presented. Although officers maintained highly prejudicial attitudes towards blacks, they were not exhibited in encounters, but did affect the nature, formal or personal of the encounter. Policemen were constrained in acting out their feelings. -- Section II. In this report, empirical studies of police occupation and organization police themselves are empirically studied. Police officers orientation to their work and to the public with which they deal is reported. A study in perceptions and attitudes, not of actual behavior. Police officers in selected precincts in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., were surveyed for attitudes on the nature of police careers, of police work, and with their job, of their orientation toward their tasks in policing and their relationships and transactions with the public that is policed. Their perceptions of how organizations and systems that affect law enforcement have influenced or changed their work. Findings and survey instrument utilized are given.