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NCJ 100199
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| Title:
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Factors in the Socialization of Police Officers - An Exploratory Study
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| Journal:
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American Journal of Police Volume:4 Issue:2 Dated:(Fall 1985) Pages:167-186
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| Author(s):
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H R Delaney
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| Publication Date:
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1985 |
| Pages:
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20 |
| Type:
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Studies/research reports |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Annotation:
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The present exploratory-descriptive study examined, heuristically, the conceptual and theoretical implications of three variables for their relevance to the study of police work: (1) respondents' decisions to major in Police Science and Administration (2) respondents' self-reports about factors Administration (2) respondents' self-reports about factors of value in their on-the-job performance, and (3) respondents' curriculum preference. |
| Abstract:
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The population under study were police science graduates from a university in the Southwestern United States. An eighty-one item questionnaire was mailed to 571 graduates of the program; two hundred and thirty-eight (47 percent) of the graduates responded and were included in the analysis. Conceptual and theoretical implications were developed for the major findings: (a) a significant proportion of the respondents (43.1 percent) made an early decision (during or prior to the junior year in high school) to enter law enforcement, (b) a substantial proportion of the respondents (41.1 percent) cited personal traits of the individual as an important factor in their on-the-job performance, and (c) most respondents (72.1 percent) preferred a balance between traditional police functions and social service functions in the curriculum; the comments of 89 respondents were judged to be supportive of a social service (criminal-justice-as-professional-education) model. (Publisher abstract) |
| Main Term(s):
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Police professionalism |
| Index Term(s):
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Police education ; Police attitudes ; Police decisionmaking ; Police research ; Police subculture ; Police social worker role |
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