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This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management,
professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting
crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations,
policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most
current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing
with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable
reference or textbook in a special topics course. It consists of
edited versions of the best papers presented at the IPES annual
meeting in Budapest.
At a time when police abuses and errors make the headlines, it is
important to understand just what goes into the decisions that
police make when they are confronted with various crime scenarios
in the line of duty. Required to respond within the law, many
officers are able to respond in a legal manner to crime situations
in which court decisions are written clearly and with easily
applied guidelines. But what happens when those decisions and laws
are written in a way that invites interpretation and varies from
situation to situation? Based on a case study of New York City
police officers, this important volume analyzes how officers
contend with often-ambiguous laws in the face of specific crime
scenarios. In addition, the author explores other influences on
police decision making, including officer characteristics and
attitudes, and makes policy recommendations in an effort to
encourage the reinforcement of legal guidelines so that the rights
of individuals are appropriately balanced with the duty to control
crime. Based on a survey of nearly 1,300 officers' responses to
specially designed hypothetical crime scenarios, this study
illustrates how police officers are likely to react with regard to
the law in these situations. While officers tend to act legally
where the laws are clear, less clearly articulated laws leave the
police with a variety of different options for action in ambiguous
situations. For instance, in weapons scenarios, the survey showed
that officers would often take advantage of ambiguity in the law
with regard to how they may respond. In drug scenarios, officers
will increase their tendency to do a search if the situation is
slightly ambiguous, though they willdecrease their search responses
when the situation appears to be highly ambiguous. Eterno carefully
examines the various responses and the laws that are meant to guide
what police may or may not do in given situations, concluding that
better laws and bright-line rules will help to check and balance
the need to fight crime aggressively while preventing the abuse of
authority that may arise in questionable circumstances.
This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management,
professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting
crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations,
policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most
current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing
with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable
reference or textbook in a special topics course. It consists of
edited versions of the best papers presented at the IPES annual
meeting in Budapest.
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