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The ambivalent force perspectives on the police

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  • "These 46 articles examine the role of the police in both the past and the present, with emphasis on the ambiguities and ambivalences inherent in the police role. The analyses are written from the perspectives of behavioral science, journalism, psychiatry, law, law enforcement, history, and administration. They include a discussion of the social and historical contexts in which the police function; the impacts of race, class, ethnicity, gender, occupational speciality, and training on the police role; and the organizational and institutional constraints within which the police operate. The sources of the police values of loyalty, authoritarianism, and defensiveness are surveyed, and police corruption is examined. Police discretion is considered in terms of the underlying social, organizational, psychological, and ideological variables. Police relations with urban minorities and other urban communities and the police response to terrorism are also discussed. Further sections consider the legal issues affecting the police, controversies surrounding the police role, the police use of deadly force, police stress, and the dynamics of family relationships of police personnel. A concluding section considers the future of policing, police education, and police unionism."
  • "Various assessments of some major features of the police occupation and role by psychiatrists, attorneys, administrators, and others are presented in this collection of papers. The volume stresses the uncertainties, ambiguities, and ambivalences of the police role in society in the past and present which are likely to persist in the foreseeable future. Historical similarities are revealed in the relative permanence and continuity of the problems of the police as they confront violent and disruptive events in every epoch. Suggestions and predictions with regard to the future roles of the police are made. The organizational and institutional constraints of the police system are examined, with particular attention to the bureaucratic qualities that determine the lifestyles, career lines, and policy decisions of police organizations. It is said that the police share many of the dilemmas and unresolved conflicts of professionalization common to other occupations. The police world view is examined, and the sources of their values of loyalty, authoritarianism, and defensiveness are explored. They are compared with other professional groups which undergo a similar estrangement as they become more experienced in their work situation. Several articles deal with the issue of police corruption. A chapter on police discretion analyzes some factors which affect a police officer's virtually uncontrolled discretion in the performance of his duty. The problems of police work relations with urban communities are discussed, including the causes of the constantly high level of hostility toward police. An overview of legal issues that touch upon the police is presented. Critiques of the police by a number of persons are offered, and suggestions for necessary changes are made. The final chapter contains perceptions of several authorities on the directions law enforcement will follow in the next few decades."

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