POLICE ROLE - A CASE OF DIVERSITY (FROM CRIMINAL JUSTICE AS A SYSTEM - READINGS, 1975 BY ALAN R COFFEY AND VERNON E RENNER - SEE NCJ-29171)

• NCJ Number: 29174
• Author(s): R H WARD
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 12 pages
• Corporate Author: Prentice Hall
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE GOALS OF THE POLICE, THEIR SIMILARITIES AND DIVERSITIES BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES.

Abstract

HE MAINTAINS THAT POLICE OPERATE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A SYSTEM AND THAT THEIR ACTIONS ARE, GENERALLY, THE RESULT OF COMMUNITY, OR AT LEAST PEER GROUP, NORMS, VALUES, AND EXPECTATIONS, EVEN WHEN THESE EXPECTATIONS ARE IN CONFLICT WITH WRITTEN RULES OR LAWS, THE ROLE CONFLICT GENERATED BY DIVERGENT EXPECTATIONS WITHIN THE SAME COMMUNITY IS ALSO CONSIDERED.