dc.contributor.author | Wortley, RK | |
dc.contributor.editor | Curt R. Bartol | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T12:13:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T12:13:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.date.modified | 2010-03-30T08:07:50Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0093-8548 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/5781 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article describes the construction of two scales to measure police attitudes toward the selective enforcement of the law. The Service-Legalistic scale measures police discretion along a flexible-inflexible continuum. Service-oriented police advocate the use of discretion to help solve social problems; legalistic police oppose discretion because it interferes with their duty to enforce the law equitably. The Watchman scale examines the use of discretion to maintain control. Watchman-oriented police simultaneously ignore minor offenses and call for greater powers to deal with serious crime. Service-related discretion was found to negatively correlate with authoritarianism and the belief that crime is caused by the individual dispositions of offenders; watchman-related discretion positively correlated with authoritarianism, ethnocentrism, and a belief in individual crime causation. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 69248 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage | |
dc.publisher.place | Thousand Oaks, CA | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://cjb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/5/538 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 538 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 558 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 5 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Criminal Justice and Behavior | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 30 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Criminology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4402 | |
dc.title | Measuring police attitudes towards discretion | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2003 Sage Publications. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. First published in Criminal Justice & Behavior. This journal is available online: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/vol30/issue5/ | |
gro.date.issued | 2003 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Wortley, Richard K. | |