“It's kind of preventative maintenance”: social capital and policing in rural schools
Dale C. Spencer,
Rosemary Ricciardelli,
Taryn Hepburn
Abstract:PurposeThe purpose of this article is to examine the expectations, challenges and tensions officers describe while engaged with public schools to demonstrate that officers engage with students in public schools in a conscious, goal-oriented process to establish and maintain useful relationships.Design/methodology/approachData collection involved 104 semi-structured interviews (including follow up interviews) and 31 focus groups, conducted between 2014 and 2018 with police officers working in rural areas of a p… Show more
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