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This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning
police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion. The
authors critically evaluate the tentative answers that empirical
evidence provides to those questions, and suggest areas for future
inquiry. Nearly seven decades of empirical study have provided
extensive knowledge regarding police use of arrest. However, this
research highlights important gaps in our understanding of factors
that shape police decision-making and what is required to alter
current police practice. Reviewing this research base, this brief
takes stock of what is known empirically about all aspects related
to the use of arrests, providing important insights on the
knowledge needed to make evidence-based policy decisions moving
forward. With the potential to better impact policy and programs
for alternatives to arrest, this brief will appeal to researchers
and practitioners in evidence-based policing and police
decision-making, as well as those interested in alternatives to
arrest and related fields such as public policy.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the United States, the
exercise of police authority-and the public's trust that police
authority is used properly-is a recurring concern. Contemporary
prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better
trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and
cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher
levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E.
Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model
of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice
seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations.
But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen
interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in
fact, illusory.
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