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Author : David D. Perlmutter
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452267723

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Policing the Media is an investigation into one of the paradoxes of the mass-mediated age. Issues, events, and people that we "see" most on our television screens are often those that we understand the least. David Perlmutter examined this issue as it relates to one of the most frequently portrayed groups of people on television: police officers. Policing the Media is a report on the ethnography of a police department, derived from the author′s experience riding on patrol with officers and joining the department as a reserve policeman. Drawing upon interviews, personal observations, and the author′s black-and-white photographs of cops and the "clients," Perlmutter describes the lives and philosophies of street patrol officers. He finds that cops hold ambiguous attitudes toward their television comrades, for much of TV copland is fantastic and preposterous. Even those programs that boast gritty realism little resemble actual police work. Moreover, the officers perceive that the public′s attitudes toward law enforcement and crime are directly (and largely nefariously) influenced by mass media. This in turn, he suggests, influences the way that they themselves behave and "perform" on the street, and that unreal and surreal expectations of them are propagated by television cop shows. This cycle of perceptual influence may itself profoundly impact the contemporary criminal justice system, on the street, in the courts, and in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.

Author : Timothy J. Flanagan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1996-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452246491

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This book should be made a part of any college level library that features holdings in social sciences. . . . Americans View Crime and Justice presents a national public opinion survey and its results on the issues. These edited results of a survey conducted in 1995 examine such issues as gun control, capital punishment, and juvenile crime, offering public opinion along with the analyses of a panel of criminologists. --The Midwest Book Review Readable and carefully edited, Americans View Crime and Justice reports and analyzes results from the recent National Crime and Justice Survey (NCJS), the richest and most wide-ranging investigation of public opinion on crime and justice issues in more than a decade. Conducted in June 1995, the survey features responses from 1,000 adults in the United States on now-volatile issues such as fear of crime, gun control, capital punishment, juvenile crime, and additional related topics of national concern. A distinguished panel of criminologists analyzes the collected data in this volume to present a comprehensive report on the development and current status of public opinion on these timely issues. Divided into three sections—context and framework; findings; and opinion, policy, and science—this authoritative volume also analyzes the implications of the survey data. Providing interesting insights and timely quantification of Americans′ view of crime and justice, this volume offers a unique view of public opinion particularly important to the work of researchers, law enforcement personnel, policy makers, public officials, and students of criminology and criminal justice, law, and political science.

Author : Jane Wood
Publisher : Willan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134021631

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Public opinion is vital to the functioning of the criminal justice system but it is not at all clear how best to establish what this is, and what views people have on different aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system. Politicians and the media often assume that the public wants harsher, tougher and longer sentences, and policies may be shaped accordingly. Detailed research and more specific polling often tells a different story. This book is concerned to shed further light on the nature of public views on criminal justice, paying particular attention to public opinion towards specific types of offenders, such as sex offenders and mentally disordered offenders. In doing so it challenges many enduring assumptions regarding people's views on justice, and confronts the myths that infect our understanding of what people think about the criminal justice system.

Author : Mike Hough
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0335225802

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Which factors shape public opinion of criminal justice? How do the views of the public influence criminal justice policy and practice? This book provides an introduction to public attitudes towards criminal justice. It explores the public’s lack of confidence in criminal justice processes, and summarizes findings on public attitudes towards the three principal components of the criminal process: the police, the courts, and the prison system. It examines the importance that people attach to different criminal justice functions, such as preventing crime, prosecuting and punishing offenders, and protecting the public. Topics include: Youth justice and public opinion Public perception of restorative justice Penal populism and media treatment of crime The reliability of public opinion polls The drivers of public opinion Understanding Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice provides an international perspective on the issues surrounding criminal justice and public opinion, drawing on research from the UK, the United States and Canada and a range of other countries including South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Key reading for students in criminology, criminal justice, and media studies, this book is also of value to researchers and those with an interest in crime and the media.

Author : Jane Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134021704

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Public opinion is vital to the functioning of the criminal justice system but it is not at all clear how best to establish what this is, and what views people have on different aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system. Politicians and the media often assume that the public wants harsher, tougher and longer sentences, and policies may be shaped accordingly. Detailed research and more specific polling often tells a different story. This book is concerned to shed further light on the nature of public views on criminal justice, paying particular attention to public opinion towards specific types of offenders, such as sex offenders and mentally disordered offenders. In doing so it challenges many enduring assumptions regarding people's views on justice, and confronts the myths that infect our understanding of what people think about the criminal justice system.

Author : Vania Ceccato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000097943

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The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Author : Vincent Sacco
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Crime
ISBN :

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This research examines a number of issues relating to the study of public perceptions of crime. The following questions are addressed: (1) What conceptual meaning may be attributed to public perceptions of crime? (2) How do the character!'stics of social actors and the characteristics of the environments within which they reside affect the distribution of perception? (3) What types of behavioural consequences flow from perceptions of crime? (4) What implications does the study of public perceptions of crime have for the criminological theory? (5) What implications do the study of such perceptions have for the formation of public policy? With respect to the conceptual question, the study of public perceptions of crime is placed within the more general context of perception in criminology. Although a typology of public perception is suggested, the argument is made that perceptions of crime are diffuse and many-sided phenomena which express a more general community malaise. Employing data collected from a seven city sample of Alberta residents, an attempt is made to empirically assess the relative importance of various factors which might be thought to affect the differential distribution of perceptions of crime. With respect to social actor characteristics, the data suggest that the variables sex and resentment of social change are of particular predictive importance. The hypothesis that the attributes of social actors interact with the city of residence to produce differentials in perception is generally unsupported. However, city of residence does appear to have predictive power independent of the characterisecs of the people who inhabit the city. A contextual analysis indicates that both the rate of crime within the city and the population size are important variables. The influence exerted by city and city-related variables upon perceptions of crime is theoretically interpreted in terms of the effects of criminal environments. The analysis relating to the consequences which flow from differential perceptions of crime focuses upon the effects which such perceptions have for three types of dependent variables--community affect, interpersonal trust and defensive behaviour. The effects of perception upon these variables are small but in many cases significant. The argument that such effects are likely only within certain urban environments is largely unsupported. With respect to the implications which the study of public perceptions of crime has for criminological theory, the argument is made that it is erroneous to conceptualize the study of perception as a narrowly defined subarea of criminology. Rather it is argued that the attempt be made to understand the relationships which such perceptions have to a whole range of central criminological questions. In terms of policy implications, it is suggested that the pragmatic role of the study of perception may be understood with reference to the framework known as social indicators research. Thus, if perceptions of crime can be conceptualized as general measures of concern for community, they may serve as indicators of the perceived quality of life.