Policing and Society ( IF 2.705 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-26 , DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1798954 Jessica Walzak 1 , Cecilia Chouhy 1 , Alexa Singer 2 , Peter S. Lehmann 3 , Marc Gertz 1
ABSTRACT
Prior research addressing extralegal policing has focussed on the types of individuals most affected by these practices (i.e. disadvantaged minorities and police officers) as a means to improve conditions for these populations. Although these studies are critical for educating the public and informing criminal justice policy, there remains a noteworthy gap in the literature related to the types of political and sociocultural circumstances under which extralegal policing practices endure. The current study will mitigate this gap by addressing two theoretically-informed sources of public support (i.e. conflict and procedural justice theories) for police misconduct within the United States and Latin America. Analyses of three countries from the 2012 AmericasBarometer survey revealed a strong, ongoing presence of support for extralegal policing, with approximately one quarter of U.S. and Brazilian respondents and nearly half of Argentinian respondents expressing favourable views. While the analyses illustrated varying levels of support for conflict and procedural justice theory mechanisms, these findings highlight the importance of working to improve empirical understandings of public support for extralegal policing as a means to identify the contexts in which support is generated for both violent and non-violent police misconduct internationally.
中文翻译:
模糊的“蓝线”:对法外警务公共支持来源的跨国比较
摘要
先前针对法外警务的研究集中在受这些做法影响最大的个人类型(即处于不利地位的少数民族和警察),以此作为改善这些人群状况的一种手段。尽管这些研究对于教育公众和为刑事司法政策提供信息至关重要,但与法外警务实践持续存在的政治和社会文化环境类型相关的文献中仍然存在值得注意的差距。目前的研究将通过解决美国和拉丁美洲警察不当行为的两个理论上知情的公共支持来源(即冲突和程序正义理论)来缩小这一差距。2012 年 AmericasBarometer 调查对三个国家的分析显示,对法外警务的强大持续支持,大约四分之一的美国和巴西受访者以及近一半的阿根廷受访者表示赞同。虽然分析说明了对冲突和程序正义理论机制的不同程度的支持,但这些发现强调了努力提高对公众对法外警务支持的经验理解的重要性,以此作为确定为暴力和非暴力提供支持的背景的一种手段。 - 国际上的暴力警察不当行为。