Persuasion, Police, and Public Safety: Message Framing, Compliance, and Perceptions of Law Enforcement

Sanctuary jurisdictions have existed in the United States since the 1980s. They have recently reentered U.S. politics and engendered contentious debates regarding their legality and influence on public safety. Critics argue that sanctuary jurisdictions create conditions that threaten local communities by impeding federal immigration enforcement efforts. Proponents maintain that the policies improve public safety by fostering institutional trust among immigrant communities and by increasing the willingness of immigrant community members to notify the police after they are victimized. In this study, we situate expectations from the immigrant sanctuary literature within a multilevel, contextualized help-seeking framework to assess how crime-reporting behavior varies across immigrant sanctuary contexts. We find that Latinos are more likely to report violent crime victimization to law enforcement after sanctuary policies have been adopted within their metropolitan areas of residence. We argue that social policy contexts can shift the nature of help-seeking experiences and eliminate barriers that undermine crime victims’ willingness to mobilize the law. Overall, this study highlights the unique role social policy contexts can serve in structuring victims’ help-seeking decisions.

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Alcoholism and Law Enforcement

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112876300900109 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 84-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert F. Borkenstein

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Antisocial Behavior ◽

Public Safety ◽

Criminal Code ◽

Alcoholic Beverages ◽

General Law ◽

Law Enforcement Agency

The responsibility of the progressive law enforcement agency is to gain compliance with laws that promote harmony in society. Alcohol tends ,to alter the attitudes of otherwise law-abiding citizens so that there is a high correlation between the excessive use of alcohol and antisocial behavior. Laws in the criminal code dealing with alcohol fall roughly into four categories—those dealing directly with public safety, those that reflect moral at titudes, those reflecting the attitudes of loud minorities, and those dealing with the licensing, revenue, or sale of alcoholic beverages. From the standpoint of the general law enforcement agency, the only laws worthy of energetic enforcement are those dealing with public safety. The others are usually enforced by agencies with special and limited jurisdiction.

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HIV and AIDS : Implications for Law Enforcement and Public Safety in South Africa

Effective Crime Reduction Strategies ◽

10.1201/b10596-22 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 261-284

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Public Safety ◽

Hiv And Aids

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METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF ENSURING THE PUBLIC SECURITY AND ORDER DURING MASS EVENTS

International scientific journal Internauka Series Juridical Sciences ◽

10.25313/2520-2308-2021-1-6842 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Andrii Melnyk ◽

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Mykola Gutsuliak ◽

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Public Safety ◽

Scientific Article ◽

The European Union ◽

Law And Order ◽

Law Enforcement Agencies ◽

The Public ◽

Relevant Field ◽

National Police ◽

Mass Events

The conceptual aspects of ensuring the public safety and order during mass events in accordance with the implemented methodology of the National Police of Ukraine in the field of the realization of citizens’ rights to peaceful assembly have been analyzed in this article. The peculiarities of the organization of the activity of the police bodies and subunits within the limits of the joint performance of tasks concerning the maintenance of law and order have been defined. The main ways and methods of using police forces and means while preventing and stopping the offenses during peaceful assemblies have been analyzed for compliance with the national legislation. The authors have also compared some tactical methods used by the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and those that are adopted from the European practice of policing and, accordingly, specified in the departmental regulations governing the relevant field of the professional duties. The statements, suggested in this scientific article, are based on the results of the interviews with the leadership of the National Police bodies and subunits that directly implement the tasks of the ensuring public safety and order during mass events and have been trained by the European Union Advisory Mission in Ukraine aiming to form a new model of securing the public order [1].

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Employee Assistance Programs

Police Psychology and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement - Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0813-7.ch010 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 199-219

Author(s):

Evan M. Axelrod

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Return On Investment ◽

Critical Incident ◽

Public Safety ◽

Law Enforcement Officers ◽

Psychological Services ◽

Employee Assistance Programs ◽

Employee Assistance ◽

Assistance Programs ◽

The Public

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce and explore counseling and psychological services for law enforcement officers that extend beyond critical incident interventions. In particular, this chapter focuses on Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), including discussion of how such programs have become an essential tool in supporting and sustaining law enforcement officers, their families, the agencies they work for, and the communities they serve. This chapter discusses what an EAP is, the benefits of EAPs, and the return on investment that public safety agencies can expect when utilizing an EAP. Relevant topics such as confidentiality, internal vs. external EAPs, and the need for specialized EAPs for public safety agencies are addressed. Finally, the chapter also explores non-traditional services that can be offered through EAPs to assist public safety agencies in supporting and sustaining their personnel in meeting their mission of serving the public.

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Under Pressure

ORBIT ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780197545959.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 113-135

Author(s):

Frances Surmon-Böhr ◽

Laurence J. Alison ◽

Neil D. Shortland ◽

Emily K. Alison

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Public Safety ◽

Deliberate Practice ◽

Law Enforcement Officers ◽

Imminent Threat ◽

Training Exercises ◽

The Military

This chapter discusses the concept and potential issues surrounding “urgent safety” or “imminent threat” interviews. It also summarizes a series of observations of law enforcement officers’ performance during simulated urgent interviews across a series of training exercises. The authors’ observations (both from psychologists as trainers and police facilitators) include the following: (1) safety interviewing appears to require a different skill set from evidential interviewing; (2) officers struggled to communicate a sense of intensity, gravity, and urgency required of an interview that aims to obtain information very quickly to preserve life and maintain public safety; (3) in order to improve, interviewers must practice these sorts of interactions more often (they require deliberate practice and feedback with guidance); and (4) elements of interviewing and time-sensitive questioning in the military may offer a useful template of the intensity and urgency required in police safety interviews.

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Insurgent safety: Theorizing alternatives to state protection

Theoretical Criminology ◽

10.1177/1362480617713984 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 43-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Meghan G McDowell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Alternative Model ◽

Justice System ◽

Public Safety ◽

The United States ◽

Dominant Model ◽

Police Violence ◽

Social Good ◽

State Protection

In the United States, public safety is embraced as an unquestioned social good. Broadly speaking, the criminal justice system is tasked with administering and maintaining public safety through the use of law enforcement, the courts, and prisons. First, through a focus on racialized police violence, this article develops a critique of the dominant model of public safety practiced in the United States—identified herein as ‘carceral safety’. Second, through an analysis of findings from the (Re)imagining Public Safety Project (RPSP), this article seeks to sketch out an alternative model and practice of safety that does not rely on banishment, policing, or mass criminalization. In contradistinction to the forms of state protection exercised under the seemingly innocuous rhetoric of ‘public safety’, RPSP participants conceptualized what I am calling ‘insurgent safety’: locally determined, anti-capitalist practices and ethics for reducing, and responding to harm.

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Recent Book: Performance Prediction of Public Safety and Law Enforcement Personnel — A Study in Race and Gender Differences and MMPI Sub Scales

The Police Journal Theory Practice and Principles ◽

10.1177/0032258x9106400216 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 185-185

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Performance Prediction ◽

Public Safety ◽

Recent Book ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Law Enforcement Personnel ◽

And Gender

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Personal Involvement Moderates Message Framing Effects on Food Safety Education among Medical University Students in Chongqing, China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15092059 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 2059 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Li Bai ◽

Zhengjie Cai ◽

Yalan Lv ◽

Tingting Wu ◽

Manoj Sharma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

University Students ◽

Message Framing ◽

Health Condition ◽

Safety Education ◽

Food Safety Education ◽

Safety Message ◽

Personal Involvement ◽

Gain And Loss ◽

Medical University

Objective: This study explored whether the efficacy of food safety education interventions can be increased by message framing among medical university students, and demonstrated the role of personal involvement within the message recipient in moderating framed effects. Methods: A cross-sectional study of food safety message framing was conducted among medical university students (randomly selected 1353 participants). An online self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information. Wilcoxon rank-sum test and Ordered multivariate logistic regression were utilised in the data analyses. Results: The present study showed significant differences in acceptance between the gain- and loss-framed groups (p < 0.001). Participants with higher personal involvement had higher acceptance than those with low personal involvement in gain- and loss-framed message models (p < 0.001). The acceptance of participants who were concerned about their health condition was higher than those who were neutral regarding their health condition (p < 0.001) and participants who suffered a food safety incident had higher acceptance than those who did not (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study portrayed the selection preference of message framing on food safety education among medical university students in southwest China. Participants exposed to loss-framed messages had higher message acceptance than those exposed to gain-framed messages. Personal involvement may affect the food safety message framing. Public health advocates and professionals can use framed messages as a strategy to enhance intervention efficacy in the process of food safety education.

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Standard Practice for Certification of Less Lethal Aerosol Devices Used by Law Enforcement, Corrections, and Other Public Safety Officers

10.1520/e3215 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Public Safety ◽

Standard Practice

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