Impact of Community Policing at the Street Level : An Observational Study in Richmond, Virginia, 1992 / Stephen D. Mastrofski, Jeffrey B. Snipes.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Mastrofski, Stephen D.

Snipes, Jeffrey B.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 2612.

ICPSR ; 2612

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This study's purpose was twofold: to investigate the nature of police patrol work in a community policing context and to field-test data collection instruments designed for systematic social observation. The project, conducted in Richmond, Virginia, where its police department was in the third year of a five-year plan to implement community policing, was designed as a case study of one police department's experience with community policing, focusing on officers in the patrol division. A team of eight researchers conducted observations with the police officers in the spring and summer of 1992. A total of 120 officers were observed during 125 observation sessions. Observers accompanied officers throughout their regular work shifts, taking brief field notes on officers' activities and encounters with the public. All of an observed officer's time during the shift was accounted for by either encounters or activities. Within 15 hours of the completion of the ridealong, the observer prepared a detailed narrative account of events that occurred during the ridealong and coded key items associated with these events. The study generated five nested quantitative datasets that can be linked by common variables. Part 1, Ridealong Data, provides information pertinent to the 125 observation sessions or "rides." Part 2, Activity Data, focuses on 5,576 activities conducted by officers when not engaged in encounters. Data in Part 3, Encounter Data, describe 1,098 encounters with citizens during the ridealongs. An encounter was defined as a communication between officers and citizens that took over one minute, involved more than three verbal exchanges between an officer and a citizen, or involved significant physical contact between the officer and citizen. Part 4, Citizen Data, provides data relevant to each of the 1,630 citizens engaged by police in the encounters. Some encounters invo... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02612

Contents:

Part 1: Ridealong Data; Part 2: Activity Data; Part 3: Encounter Data; Part 4: Citizen Data; Part 5: Arrest Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61147564

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