2020
DOI: 10.1177/1748895820933912
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How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities

Abstract: Despite widespread empirical support for Procedural Justice Theory, understanding the role of police psychology in shaping encounters with ‘citizens’ is relatively opaque. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring how officers talk about themselves and their colleagues and deploy social categories to understand their interactions with ‘the public’. The qualitative thematic analysis draws upon 22 semi-structured interviews conducted with officers in various roles and teams within a l… Show more

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“…The negative feelings endorsed by the narrative were more concentrated among those who explicitly referenced social group identity in their stories. Legitimacy theorists within criminal justice have only recently re-emphasized early foundations in social identity (e.g., O'Brien & Tyler, 2019Radburn et al, 2018Radburn et al, , 2020Radburn & Stott, 2019), but narrative themes invoking social identity in these respondents suggests its continued salience. That said, current criminal justice theorists should familiarize themselves with the nuances of identity theories (e.g., differences in Tajfel's (1972) work and Stryker's (1980) structural symbolic interactionism or "identity theory"), and should be part of contemporary debates and developments in the field (e.g., critiques of the theory by system justification theorists and notable rebuttals; see Blount-Hill, 2020a).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The negative feelings endorsed by the narrative were more concentrated among those who explicitly referenced social group identity in their stories. Legitimacy theorists within criminal justice have only recently re-emphasized early foundations in social identity (e.g., O'Brien & Tyler, 2019Radburn et al, 2018Radburn et al, , 2020Radburn & Stott, 2019), but narrative themes invoking social identity in these respondents suggests its continued salience. That said, current criminal justice theorists should familiarize themselves with the nuances of identity theories (e.g., differences in Tajfel's (1972) work and Stryker's (1980) structural symbolic interactionism or "identity theory"), and should be part of contemporary debates and developments in the field (e.g., critiques of the theory by system justification theorists and notable rebuttals; see Blount-Hill, 2020a).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, this study is in direct response to calls for further exploration of citizens’ social and psychological attitudes toward police use of surveillance cameras as a crime prevention and compliance tool (Munyo and Rossi, 2020). In addition, despite receiving a considerable research attention among scholars, studies that used PJT have not shed significant light on psychological perspectives of citizens’ (Radburn et al , 2020). Hence, this research extends PJT within the context of citizens’ psychological responses to police use of surveillance cameras.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Entsprechend hat das Einsatztraining auch hier eine Verantwortung zum reflexiven Umgang. Dies ist gerade vor dem Hintergrund von Fällen wichtig, in denen über Sprache Abwertungen gegenüber bestimmten Menschengruppen geäußert wird (Radburn et al 2020;Voigt et al 2017). Das Einsatztraining hat hier gerade in seiner sozialisierenden Wirkung Vorbildfunktion: Das Nutzen einer konsequent vorurteilsfreien und inklusiven Sprache.…”
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“…Studienergebnisse legen nahe, dass im Laufe der polizeilichen Sozialisation vermehrt eine Abkapselung von der Zivilgesellschaft erfolgt und eine "Wir-gegen-die"-Mentalität entsteht (Boivin et al 2018). Der Fokus auf die Generierung und Erhaltung einer sozialen Identität als Polizei auf der einen Seite (wir) im Vergleich zu den "Anderen" auf der anderen Seite (die) scheint hierbei besonders problematisch, da hierdurch zwei soziale Identitäten verfestigt werden, die eigentlich zu einer gehören: der Gesellschaft (Radburn et al 2020). Narra-tive wie beispielsweise das der Gefährlichkeit oder der Einzigartigkeit des Polizeiberufs tragen ihren Teil dazu bei, die getrennten sozialen Identitäten zu manifestieren (Branch 2020).…”
Section: Verantwortungsbereich 2: Spracheunclassified
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