scholarly journals American Policing and the Danger Imperative

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Behavior ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Officer Safety ◽  
Risk Of Injury

Despite the fact that policing is growing safer in the United States, thedanger associated with police work continues to structure departmentaltraining and police behavior. This article describes how police aresocialized into a cultural frame conceptualized as the "danger imperative"—the preoccupation with violence and the provision of officer safety—and the unintended, deadly consequences of their perception through it. Using nearly 1000 hours of participant observation and 94 interviews across three urban police departments, the author demonstrates that officers are formally and informally socialized into this frame, and learn both policy-sanctioned and policy-deviant behaviors to protect themselves from violence. However, policy-deviant behavior such as not wearing a seatbelt when driving, though justified as necessary to allow officers to defend themselves from violence, places officers at grave risk of injury and death in high-speed car crashes.

The Effect of a Narrated Video of an Arrest on Civilians’ Perceptions of Police

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Giaimo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Perceptions Of Police

Trust of the police is at a 22-year low in the United States (Jones, 2015). Many police departments hold community discussions in an attempt to educate civilians and increase trust in the police (Star, 2017). This research explores whether an in depth, play-by-play explanation of force used during a video of a violent arrest can increase civilians’ perceptions of the police. Participants either watched a video of a violent arrest with narration or the same video with no narration. The narrator explained the tactics used by the police officers and how the tactics were used to avoid escalation of the violence during the arrest. After viewing one of the videos, both groups filled out the Perceptions of Police (POP) scale to indicate the participants’ feelings about the police. The type of video watched did not influence POP scores, however two interactions were significant. These results suggest that the police should focus on other methods of gaining the trust of Americans.

scholarly journals Benchmark of the Trends of Spatial Inequality in World Megaregions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6456
Author(s):  
Ziqi Liu ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Liwen Liu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Theil Index ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
International Learning ◽  
Regional Product ◽  
Index Measure

There have been growing concerns around the world over the rising spatial inequality (SI) amid fast and vast globalization. This paper presents an effort to benchmark the conditions and trends of spatial inequality in 37 megaregions in the United States, Europe, and China. Furthermore, the study selected three megaregion examples and analyzed the effect of developing high-speed rail (HSR) as an infrastructure investment strategy on reshaping the spatial pattern of job accessibility. The study measures spatial inequality with the Theil index of gross regional product and with the rank-size coefficient of polycentricity. Results show that spatial inequality exists and varies in magnitude within and between megaregions. On average, Chinese megaregions exhibited the level of spatial inequality about two times or more of those in the U.S. and European megaregions. The decade between 2006 and 2016 saw a decrease in the Theil index measure of megaregional inequality in China, but a slight increase in the United States and Europe. Fast growing megaregions exhibit high levels and rising trends of spatial inequality regardless of the country or continent setting. HSR helps improve mobility and accessibility; yet the extent to which HSR reduces spatial inequality is context dependent. This study presents a first attempt to assess and compare the spatial inequality conditions and trajectories in world megaregions aiming at promoting international learning.

Design of High-Speed Railway Bridges with Earthquakes in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinghong Cao ◽  
Todd Ude ◽  
Daniel Getter ◽  
Brendan Gill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Railway Bridges

Risk of Injury From Baseball and Softball in Children 5 to 14 Years of Age

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-692
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Complete Resolution ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overuse Injuries ◽  
Little League ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
Structural Abnormalities ◽  
Catastrophic Impact ◽  
Radiologic Evidence

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the United States, with estimates of 4.8 million children 5 to 14 years of age participating annually in organized and recreational baseball and softball. Interest in and fascination with the sport have grown since the beginning of the 20th century, but it was not until 1965 that the issue of "Little League elbow" raised concern about the safety of the game. Recently, highly publicized catastrophic impact injuries from contact with a ball or bat have raised new safety concerns. These injuries provided the impetus for this review of the safety of baseball for 5- to 14-year-old participants. The discussion focuses principally on baseball, but softball is considered in accord with the availability of relevant literature. This statement mainly concerns injuries during practices and games in organized settings; players and bystanders also can be injured in casual play. The term Little League elbow was used in 1965 to denote radiologic evidence of fragmentation of the medial epicondylar apophysis and osteochondrosis of the head of the radius and capitellum.1,2 Subsequent studies of children 12 years old and younger3,4 have found a substantially lower incidence of abnormalities than originally described.1,2 Early detection and intervention seem to permit the complete resolution of symptoms and underlying structural abnormalities.5 More serious abnormalities become more common after the age of 13 years.6-8 The role that repetitive throwing in 5- to 14-year-old children may play in the evolution of elbow overuse injuries at an older age remains to be determined.

Filmgoers’ Fingerprints

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-256
Author(s):  
Noah Tsika
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Movie Theaters ◽  
Movie Theater ◽  
Crime Films ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Biometric Information

This chapter focuses on fingerprinting stations, which, from the early 1920s until the late 1950s, were often located in the lobbies of movie theaters and used both in conjunction with crime films and as part of a broader push to collect Americans’ personal biometric information. An increasingly popular component of efforts to normalize civil identification, fingerprinting stations routinely functioned to promote both crime films and local police departments. They also raised alarming questions about the scope of police power in the United States. Fingerprinting stations were naturalized aspects of a cinematic assemblage that served police power, smuggling law enforcement into the local movie theater and making the collection of patrons’ personal biometric information seem continuous both with screen representations and with the wider work of advertising and publicity departments.

Background, Clarifications, and Overview

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Brad Vermurlen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Common Misconceptions

This introductory chapter opens with a brief summary of the big picture. It then establishes the existence of a New Calvinist movement in the United States since the turn of the millennium while acknowledging that the reality of the movement is itself a part of the puzzle. The chapter then provides an overview of the empirical data collected for this book, which includes participant observation at three (wildly popular) New Calvinist megachurches across the country, personal interviews with seventy-five Evangelical leaders (including New Calvinists and their religious challengers), and content analysis of printed and online materials, as well as how these data were analyzed. This chapter includes a section that responds to five common misconceptions about the nature and approach of this project. It ends with a summary of the narrative arc of the rest of the book, broken down by chapters.

Neoliberalism From Above and Cosmopolitanism From Below: A Korean-English Meetup Group in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Ming Curran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article applies theories of cosmopolitanism-from-below A. Appadurai (2011), F. Kurasawa (2004) to an empirical case. Drawing on participant-observation and interviews conducted over the course of 20 months at a Korean-English Meetup group in the United States, this article explores the practices of an explicitly “cosmopolitan” group. Specifically, it focuses on U.S. Americans and Korean interns, and considers their experiences and motivations within the broader structures of neoliberalism. The group is identified as alternately exemplifying and challenging neoliberal logic and the article considers the relationship between neoliberalism and different forms of cosmopolitanism. The cosmopolitan ethos fostered by the group’s founder and reinforced through members’ practice offers preliminary but hopeful evidence of a cosmopolitanism that challenges neoliberalism and the uneven distribution of cultural/economic capital.

The Effects of Experienced Customer Incivility on Employees’ Behavior Toward Customers and Coworkers

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haemi Kim ◽  
Hailin Qu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Target Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Practical Implications

This study investigates how customer incivility is related to employee incivility toward both customers and coworkers by assessing the effects of emotional job demands and burnout. The target population of this research is frontline employees working in the full-service restaurant segment in the United States. Convenience sampling was used to select participants for an online survey. The results show that employees’ experienced customer incivility is positively associated with both emotional job demands and burnout. In addition, emotional job demands mediate the association between experienced customer incivility and burnout. Moreover, it presents the positive relationships not only between burnout and employee incivility toward customers but also between burnout and employee incivility toward coworkers. This study provides theoretical and practical implications by investigating the detrimental influence of customer incivility as a stressor to trigger emotional job demands and burnout, which can lead to deviant behaviors toward both customers and coworkers.

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