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Coalition in Criminal Justice
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Coalition in Criminal Justice
Adolescent and police interactions in London
Jeffrey DeMarco, PhD Candidate, Centre for Criminology and Sociology
Aims and Objectives
Ethnographic Power and hierarchies
Interpretive Antagonism versus improvements Generalizability and transferability
Quantitative Trust in the police Behavioural intentions
Background
Volunteer organization for adolescents aged 14-19
Training for leadership and inclusion roles within community
Instil discipline, knowledge and philanthropy
Develop team-work, healthy competition and co-operation
Interactions with police and other community leaders
Background characteristics
Over 200 young men and women
58% were male average age of 15.7 years 1/3 were of BME background
49 % single parent homes 49 % had parental unemployment in the household
Over 1/5 claimed that they had poor parental relationships conflict in the house, lack of praise, unawareness of behaviour and activities
20% frequently were truant whilst 23% had been excluded from formal education
Engagement through observation
Power as a tool for good Youth-facilitators Peer leader-youth Youth-youth
Foucauldian Discipline Structure
Therapeutic alliance (Brodin, 1975) Bonds Tasks Goals
Trust in the police
Improper policing
Faith/belief
Troubled relations
Negative perceptions
Improvement
External antagonists
Trust in Authority Questionnaire (TAQ)
15-item measure Three sub-scales: TAQ General TAQ Authority TAQ police
Reliability Internal consistency α = 0.81 Inter-rater α = 0.90
Validity
Mass administration to come MPA Europol? Interpol?
Associations
Quality of contact TAQ Police r = -0.28** TAQ Overall r = -0.24**
Police attitudes TAQ Police r = -0.43** TAQ Overall r = -0.43**
Psychopathology Conduct Disorder r = 0.36** Overall r = 0.30**
Intentions to co-operate
Police Interactions TAQ Police TAQ Overall
Call the police -0.24* -0.24*
Interact if mugged -0.21* -0.16
Knife Crime -0.33** -0.23*
Overall interaction with police
-0.25** -0.17
Predictive trust model
Trust in the police
r² = 0.474
Quality β = -.42
Attitudesβ = -.17
Conduct Disorder β = .29
Implications
Baseline and follow-up for community programs
Comparison group outside of police Dissertation contains qualitative output from other focus groups
Funding/Expansion of community engagement programs Navy cadets, Project Trident
Intergroup contact Optimal conditions to ameliorate the aforementioned issued
Vicarious trust—proxy police
Conclusions and steps forward
Difficult relationship
Installation of authority
Promising positive interactions
Possibility of using other professionals Expansion of cadets?