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Coalition in Criminal Justice

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

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Coalition in Criminal Justice

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  1. Coalition in Criminal Justice Adolescent and police interactions in London Jeffrey DeMarco, PhD Candidate, Centre for Criminology and Sociology

  2. Aims and Objectives • Ethnographic • Power and hierarchies • Interpretive • Antagonism versus improvements • Generalizability and transferability • Quantitative • Trust in the police • Behavioural intentions

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Trust in the police • Improper policing • Faith/belief • Troubled relations • Negative perceptions • Improvement • External antagonists

  7. Trust in Authority Questionnaire (TAQ) • 15-item measure Three sub-scales: • TAQ General • TAQ Authority • TAQ police • Reliability • Internal consistency α = 0.81 • Inter-raterα = 0.90 • Validity • Mass administration to come • MPA • Europol? • Interpol?

  8. 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**

  9. Intentions to co-operate

  10. Predictive trust model Attitudes β = -.17 Trust in the police r² = 0.474 Conduct Disorder β = .29 Quality β = -.42

  11. 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

  12. Conclusions and steps forward • Difficult relationship • Installation of authority • Promising positive interactions • Possibility of using other professionals • Expansion of cadets?

  13. Thank you! Questions? Comments? Queries? Jeffrey.demarco.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk J.demarco@mdx.ac.uk

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