Mirage of Police Reform

Mirage of Police Reform
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780520292413
ISBN-13 : 0520292413
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Book Synopsis Mirage of Police Reform by : Robert E. Worden

Download or read book Mirage of Police Reform written by Robert E. Worden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory.


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