National Evaluation of Weed and Seed: Manatee/Sarasota Case Study

Dunworth, Terence; Mills, Gregory; Cordner, Gary W.; Roberts, Cheryl; Jacoby, Kristen

doi:10.1037/e521772006-001

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“…Citizen participation alone was a component of the Neighborhood Watch program (Hall, 1987). It was also a component in two of the problem-oriented policing interventions (Hartstone & Richetelli, 2005;McGarrell & Chermak, 2004) and several of the community policing interventions (Dunworth & Mills, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 1999dEckert, 2009;Robinson & Chandek, 2000). Trustworthy motives were the key procedural justice element of the beat policing intervention (Bond & Gow, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Four studies were randomized field experiments (Shapland et al, 2007(Shapland et al, , 2008Sherman et al, 1998;Weisburd et al, 2008), including one problem-oriented policing study and the two restorative justice conferencing studies. Fifteen studies used pre-post only designs (Bond & Gow, 1997;Dunworth & Mills, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 1999dEckert, 2009;Hartstone & Richetelli, 2005;Hinds, 2009;Kerstetter & Rasinski, 1994;Murphy et al, 2008;Singer, 2004), and eleven studies used other nonrandomized designs (Dai, 2007;Hall, 1987;Holland, 1996;McGarrell & Chermak, 2004;Panetta, 2000;Ren et al, 2005;Robinson & Chandek, 2000;Skogan & Steiner, 2004;Tuffin et al, 2006;Young et al, 2005;Zevitz et al, 1997). Studies were required to use "business as usual," or standard model policing as the comparison.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The studies differed with respect to their target populations, often according to the intervention strategy. Thus, the conferencing interventions targeted offenders and victims (Shapland et al, 2007(Shapland et al, , 2008Sherman et al, 1998), the community policing and reassurance policing interventions targeted community members generally (Dai, 2007;Dunworth & Mills, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 1999dEckert, 2009;Murphy et al, 2008;Panetta, 2000;Ren et al, 2005;Singer, 2004;Skogan & Steiner, 2004;Tuffin et al, 2006;Zevitz et al, 1997), the alternative complaints procedures targeted citizens with a complaint (Holland, 1996;Kerstetter & Rasinski, 1994;Young et al, 2005) and the informal interactions intervention targeted school-age children (Hinds, 2009). The problem-oriented policing strategies varied in their orientation; one targeted offenders (McGarrell & Chermak, 2004), and two targeted community members (Hartstone & Richetelli, 2005;Weisburd et al, 2008).…”

Section: Characteristics Of Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of the 29 included evaluations, 27 had an OR greater than one, indicating that for these studies the policing intervention was associated with an increase in positive attitudes towards the police. Of the 27 evaluations with an OR greater than one, 16 were statistically significant (Bond & Gow, 1997;Dunworth & Mills, 1999a, 1999dHall, 1987;Holland, 1996;Kerstetter & Rasinski, 1994;McGarrell & Chermak, 2004;Murphy et al, 2008;Ren et al, 2005;Shapland et al, 2007;Skogan & Steiner, 2004;Tuffin et al, 2006;Zevitz et al, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nineteen studies evaluated some type of community policing strategy. Within these 19, two defined the intervention as reassurance policing, which differs from community policing in its specific targeting of fear of crime (Singer, 2004;Tuffin, Morris, & Poole, 2006); nine studies evaluated a specific set of community policing grants known as Weed and Seed (Dunworth & Mills, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 1999dZevitz, Palazzari, Frinzi, & Mallinger, 1997); and one study identified its intervention explicitly as beat policing (Bond & Gow, 1997). The other seven community policing studies evaluated a range of activities defined as "community policing" within the studies (Dai, 2007;Eckert, 2009;Panetta, 2000;Ren, Cao, Lovrich, & Gaffney, 2005;Robinson & Chandek, 2000;Skogan & Steiner, 2004).…”

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Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review

Mazerolle¹,

Bennett²,

Davis³

et al. 2013

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This Campbell systematic review assesses the direct and indirect benefits of public police interventions that use procedurally just dialogue. The review summarises findings from 30 studies conducted in Australia, the USA and England. The participants were individuals (citizen, victim, offender etc.), groups (e.g. community) and third parties (e.g. religious advisors). Police‐led interventions specifically aimed at increasing legitimacy have a significant impact on public satisfaction with and confidence in the police. Such interventions are also associated with significantly increased public compliance/cooperation, procedural justice (fairness, neutrality, etc.) and legitimacy (obligation to obey police/law). Interventions also had a minor effect on reoffending. Executive Summary/Abstract BACKGROUNDPolice require voluntary cooperation from the general public to be effective in controlling crime and maintaining order. Research shows that citizens are more likely to comply and cooperate with police and obey the law when they view the police as legitimate. The most common pathway that the police use to increase citizen perceptions of legitimacy is through the use of procedural justice. Procedural justice, as described in the literature, comprises four essential components. These components are citizen participation in the proceedings prior to an authority reaching a decision (or voice), perceived neutrality of the authority in making the decision, whether or not the authority showed dignity and respect toward citizens throughout the interaction, and whether or not the authority conveyed trustworthy motives.Police departments throughout the world are implicitly and explicitly weaving the dialogue of these four principles of procedural justice (treating people with dignity and respect, giving citizens “voice” during encounters, being neutral in decision making, and conveying trustworthy motives) into their operational policing programs and interventions. OBJECTIVESThis review synthesizes published and unpublished empirical evidence on the impact of interventions led by the public police to enhance citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Our objective is to provide a systematic review of the direct and indirect benefits of policing approaches that foster legitimacy in policing that either report an explicit statement that the intervention sought to increase legitimacy or report that there was an application of at least one of the principles of procedural justice: participation, neutrality, dignity/respect, and trustworthy motives. SEARCH STRATEGYStudies were identified using six electronic databases (CSA, Informit, Ingenta Connect, Ovid, Proquest and Web of Knowledge) and two library catalogues (National Police Library and the Cambridge University Library and dependent libraries). We also searched the reference list of each eligible study, and reviewed the biographies and publication lists of influential authors in the field of procedural justice and police legitimacy, to determine if there were any relevant studies ...

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