POLICE VIEW OF PROTESTERS (FROM POLICE IN AMERICA, 1975, BY JEROME H SKOLNICK AND THOMAS C GRAY - SEE NCJ-19813)

• NCJ Number: 19829
• Author(s): J H SKOLNICK
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: Little, Brown and Co
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

POLICEMEN HAVE ADOPTED THE VIEW THAT CRIME AND DISORDERS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INTENTIONS OF EVIL INDIVIDUALS AS A BASIC STRATEGY FOR DEALING WITH PROTEST AND PROTESTERS.

Abstract

POLICEMEN FEEL THAT SOCIAL FACTORS, SUCH AS PERMISSIVE CHILD-REARING PRACTICES, ARE LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOCIAL DEVIANCE THAT EXISTS TODAY. THEY STATE THAT ORGANIZED PROTEST TENDS TO BE A CONSPIRATORIAL PRODUCT OF AUTHORITARIAN AGITATORS USUALLY COMMUNIST, WHO MISLEAD OTHERWISE CONTENTED PEOPLE.