The police, the public, and the pursuit of trust : A cross-national, dynamic study of trust in the police and police trust-building strategies / Dorian Schaap.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Schaap, Dorian, 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Europe--Case studies.

Police.

Police-community relations--Europe--Case studies.

Police-community relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The Hague, The Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

This book by Dorian Schaap explores the dynamics of trust between the police and the public across Europe. It examines both citizens' trust in the police and the strategies employed by police to build this trust. The study utilizes statistical analyses and case studies, focusing on the historical and contextual factors influencing trust levels. It highlights the importance of understanding trust within national and local contexts and discusses strategies in England, Wales, Denmark, and the Netherlands. The book is intended for scholars, policymakers, and police officers interested in improving police-community relations. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Table of Contents

Tables and figures

Part I Introduction and theories

1 Introduction and research questions

1.1 Trust and the police as representatives of societal order

1.2 Gaps in our knowledge

1.3 Research questions

1.4 Outline of the study

2 Central concepts

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Trust and confidence

2.3 Legitimacy

2.4 Other notions

3 An introduction to the three theoretical perspectives

3.1 Understanding trust in the police

3.2 Three paradigms of thinking about trust and trust-building

3.2.1 Proto-trust-building: Professional policing

3.3 The emergence of proximity policing approaches

3.4 Instrumentalism

3.5 Procedural justice theory and fair treatment

3.6 Concluding remarks

Part II Public trust in the police

4 Research design and hypotheses

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The problem of measurement equivalence

4.2.1 The researcher: Translation and understanding

4.2.2 The police: Function, structure, and culture

4.2.3 The public: Expectations and fears

4.2.4 Measurement equivalence in previous research

4.2.5 Testing for measurement equivalence in the present study

4.3 Perspectives on differences and developments in trust in different countries

4.3.1 Understanding change

4.3.2 The desacralization thesis

4.3.3 The safety utopia thesis

4.3.4 The post-authoritarian paradox thesis

4.3.5 The socioeconomic crisis problem

4.4 Perspectives on explaining differences between countries

4.4.1 Proximity policing

4.4.2 Instrumentalism

4.4.3 Procedural justice

4.4.4 Other determinants and control variables

4.4.5 An explanatory model of trust in the police

4.5 Concluding remarks

5 Describing developments in trust in the police in Europe from 1981 until 2014.

5.1 Data and measurements: The European Values Study and the European Social Survey

5.1.1 The European Values Study (EVS)

5.1.2 The European Social Survey (ESS)

5.2 The measurement equivalence of the ESS and EVS: Main findings

5.2.1 Multi-group structural equation modeling

5.2.2 Longitudinal measurement equivalence of the EVS, 1981-2008

5.2.3 Longitudinal measurement equivalence of the ESS, 2002-2014

5.2.4 Cross-national measurement equivalence of the ESS, 2010

5.3 Describing developments in trust in different countries

5.3.1 Long-term developments: The EVS

5.3.2 Medium-term developments: The ESS

5.3.3 Intermezzo: Trends in trust in the police compared to other institutions

5.4 Conclusions

6 Explaining differences in trust in the police between European countries

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Differences in levels of trust between countries in 2010

6.3 Operationalization

6.4 Explaining trust in the police in 2010

6.4.1 National-level determinants

6.4.2 Individual-level determinants

6.5 Intermediary variables

6.5.1 Proximity policing: Prevention of crime

6.5.2 Instrumentalism: Catching burglars and rapid response

6.5.3 Procedural justice: Accepting bribes and the procedural justice scale

6.6 Main results: Reflecting on the hypotheses

6.7 Country-specific effects

6.8 Concluding remarks

Part III Police trust-building strategies

7 Introduction, theory, and methods

7.1 Introduction and research questions

7.2 Theory: Understanding trust-building strategies

7.2.1 Problem definition, policy generation, and political events

7.2.2 Problem recognition: The invention of trust

7.2.3 Policy generation: The design of trust-building strategies

7.2.4 Political events and changing contexts

7.2.5 A comparative analysis of trust-building

7.3 Methodology.

7.3.1 Case selection

7.3.2 Data collection

7.3.3 Analytical approach

8 England &amp

Wales

8.1 The foundations of police work

8.2 Police work in the postwar decades

8.3 The 1980s: The Brixton riots, the Scarman report, and the invention of trust

8.4 The 1980s: Initial trust-building strategies and the miners' strike

8.5 The 1990s: Fighting crime and performance targets

8.6 Another view of the 1990s: 'Institutional racism'

8.7 The 2000s: PCSOs, reassurance policing, and neighbourhood policing

8.8 From 2010 onward: Conservative-led governments

8.9 Conclusions

9 Denmark

9.1 The foundations of Danish police work

9.2 Police until the 1970s

9.3 The 1970s and 1980s: Careful reform

9.4 The 1990s: Trust invented?

9.5 The proximity policing experiments of the late 1990s

9.6 The 2000s: Toward a new model of policing

9.7 After the 2007 police reform

9.7.1 Short-term impact

9.7.2 Local policing and satisfaction

9.7.3 Ethnic tensions and trust

9.7.4 Proximity policing returns

9.8 Since 2012: The Independent Police Complaints Commission

9.9 Conclusions

10 The Netherlands

10.1 The foundations of police work and the 1950s

10.2 The 1960s and 1970s: A crisis of authority

10.3 Changing police

10.4 The reorganization of 1993 and the blossoming of proximity policing

10.5 Fighting crime, New Public Management, and targets

10.6 The national police

10.6.1 The political background

10.6.2 Trust in the national police

10.6.3 More distant police?

10.7 Procedural justice

10.8 Conclusions

11 Comparing the three case studies

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Research Question 4: Defining the problem of trust

11.2.1 Framing trust: Words and meanings

11.2.2 Problems and problem definitions

11.3 Research Question 5: Strategies and solutions.

11.3.1 Different strategies

11.3.2 Policy generation and how trust-building strategies come about

11.4 Research Question 6: Understanding differences

11.4.1 The local and national context and agency

11.4.2 Policy transfer and foreign imports

11.4.3 Switching strategies

11.4.4 Convergence of trust-building strategies?

Part IV Conclusions

12 Conclusions and discussion

12.1 Summary: Main findings

12.2 The public

12.3 The police

12.4 The pursuit of trust

12.5 Chasing knowledge 293 Samenvatting

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

B.1 Basic model structure

B.2 Longitudinal equivalence tests, EVS 1981-2008

B.3 Longitudinal equivalence tests, EVS 1981-2008, on the Baltic states

B.4 Cross-national EVS measurement equivalence results

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

F.1 Questionnaire development

F.2 Robustness checks in the analyses

Appendix G

Curriculum Vitae.

Notes:

Ph. D. Radboud University, Nijmegen 2017

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789462748507

9462748500

OCLC:

1124608729