...Christopher Donner; Jon Maskaly; Lorie Fridell Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social control (adult social bonds) and police misconduct. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple regression methods are used to analyze survey data from a sample of 101...

.... Peter Somerville can be contacted at: psomerville@lincoln.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Policing Community policing Social control But what is the “self” here? What is the public that is policing itself? Harris (2006, p. 63) shows that readiness to intervene when...

...Brian C. Renauer Purpose The present study aims to examine the relationship between public and informal social control by investigating whether perceptions of neighborhood policing exhibit a positive or negative relationship to informal control. The influence of police‐resident coproduction...

...Victor E. Kappeler; Peter B. Kraska Employs the semiotic method to explore community policing reform and its use of language as a form of social control. Uses postmodern theoretical and methodological filters to clarify the discussion. Sees community policing more as a realignment of police...