Policing in small town America: Dogs, drunks, disorder, and dysfunction

Payne, Brian K.; Berg, Bruce L.; Sun, Ivan Y.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.10.006

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“…Rural and special purpose police agencies receive "scant attention" from social scientists despite calls for an increased focus on these agencies since the 1970s (Eliason 2003, p.130;Falcone et al 2002;Hummel 1983;Payne et al 2005). There are a number of reasons for this lack of attention or "intellectual ambivalence" (Eliason 2006, p.8;Pendleton 2000).…”

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“…Thus, the agencies that police rural crime also receive less attention from researchers despite the fact that over 45 percent of American law enforcement agencies are small employing fewer than nine sworn personnel (Hickman and Reaves 2006). Second, special purpose police agencies possess jurisdiction over "folk crime" those crimes characterized as less serious or harmless or undeserving of the real meaning associated with the construct of crime (Eliason 2003(Eliason , 2005Forsyth 1993;Muth 1998;Muth and Bowe 1998;Payne et al 2005;Ross 1961). Law enforcement agencies with responsibility for fish and wildlife protection or other forms of conservation are particularly understudied (Charles 1982;Eliason 2003Eliason , 2006Falcone 2004;Forsyth 1993Forsyth , 1994Hummel 1983;Thomas et al 1999;Walsh and Donovan 1984).…”

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The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?

Shelley

Crow

2009

Am J Crim Just

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Little is known about law enforcement agencies with responsibility for fish, wildlife, and natural resource protection. Traditional conceptions of fish and wildlife police associate these officers almost entirely with fishing and hunting activities. The relative scarcity of academic literature regarding fish and wildlife police agencies results in a lack of understanding about their role in the criminal justice system in general. The current study seeks to contribute to the limited existing literature by examining conservation policing in Florida, a state not yet studied in this context, by analyzing some 2,910 field events. Findings indicate that officers devote a considerable portion of their attention to traditional law enforcement activities in addition to the type of enforcement customarily associated with fish and wildlife law enforcement.

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The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?

Shelley

Crow

2009

Am J Crim Just

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“…Yet, there is growing interest in understanding the nature of crime in rural communities and how officials have responded to these offenses (Deller and Deller, 2010;Falcone, Wells, and Weisheit, 2002;Lee and Thomas, 2010;Payne, Berg, and Sun, 2005). Some of this increasing attention may result from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data that show high rates of crime in some rural areas.…”

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Trouble in the Heartland: Challenges Confronting Rural Jails

Ruddell

Mays²

2011

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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There has been very little scholarship on the roles and functions of rural jails in the United States. This study examines some of the key challenges facing these small correctional institutions, using data from two national surveys, focus groups of jail administrators, and the results from a survey of Texas jail administrators. These studies solicited information about the operational challenges and changing offender populations in small and rural jails. In order to better respond to these changing characteristics, a number of policy options for rural jails are considered, including: regionalization, transferring the operations of local jails to state departments of corrections, increasing alternatives to incarceration, expanding local capacity, abiding by standards or becoming accredited, and privatizing local corrections. The merits of these different solutions are examined.

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“…Thus from the outset there is a danger in situating rural policing in a nostalgic context which has little to do with the dynamics of change in rural communities, both in the context of crime and enterprise. Payne, Berg and Sun (2005) highlight the common (derogatory) perception of rural policing as being about 'dogs, drunks, disorder, and dysfunction'. Although the perception of the efficiency and effectiveness of the police as held by the rural public is generally more favourable than in urban areas, there is still nevertheless a negative perception of police-public community relations.…”

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Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

Smith¹

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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This article develops a working typology of rural criminal types in a UK wide context. It considers strategies used by these diverse ideal-typologies of rural criminals to successfully evade the police intelligence apparatus. It demonstrates hidden links between illegal rural enterprise and local criminal networks whilst concentrating upon the intersection of traditional criminality and illegal entrepreneurship. This article explores the changing landscape of rural crime, positing new entrepreneurial strategies for tackling rural criminality in its myriad forms.

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Policing in small town America: Dogs, drunks, disorder, and dysfunction

Cited by 88 publications

References 21 publications

The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?

The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?

Trouble in the Heartland: Challenges Confronting Rural Jails

Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

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