TY - JOUR
T1 - Role Expectations of the Police
T2 - An Analysis of 50 State Statutes
AU - Roncace, Brenton
AU - Giacomazzi, Andrew
AU - Hemmens, Craig
AU - Fliege, Georg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2005 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - While police scholars, practitioners and policy makers each have views on the primary roles of the police in society, their opinions tend to be diverse. Here, we have aimed to describe the current state of role expectations of the police from an analysis of 2002 statutes from all 50 US states. We have then compared our findings to those of Burton et al.'s (1993) similar study in an effort to determine change patterns in state statutes. The findings suggest that state laws from 2002 had a mixed law enforcement and peacekeeping approach to policing and provided more codified role expectations of the police than they did in 1993.
AB - While police scholars, practitioners and policy makers each have views on the primary roles of the police in society, their opinions tend to be diverse. Here, we have aimed to describe the current state of role expectations of the police from an analysis of 2002 statutes from all 50 US states. We have then compared our findings to those of Burton et al.'s (1993) similar study in an effort to determine change patterns in state statutes. The findings suggest that state laws from 2002 had a mixed law enforcement and peacekeeping approach to policing and provided more codified role expectations of the police than they did in 1993.
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UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/crimjust_facpubs/132
U2 - 10.1350/pojo.2005.78.4.301
DO - 10.1350/pojo.2005.78.4.301
M3 - Article
SN - 0032-258X
VL - 78
SP - 301
EP - 325
JO - Police Journal
JF - Police Journal
IS - 4
ER -
