Do Council Members Make a Difference in the Law and Order Investment?

• NCJ Number: 93070
• Journal: International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1983) Pages: 109-117
• Author(s): J N Cole; T R Davies; R A Anson
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 9 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Previous research on the determinants of police expenditures has not risen to the level of empirical understanding in large part because it has failed to explain substantively important variation among local jurisdictions.

Abstract

This suggests a need to reevaluate research strategies and to examine closely those cases which cannot be predicted using traditional, social, economic, and environmental approaches. Incorporating deviant case analysis, the authors outline an alternative approach to determine whether policy maker variables should be added to more broadly based models. (Publisher abstract)