Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience
Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience
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未来的警察奖学金：抵制政策受众的吸引力
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10.2307/3054121
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2008
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R. Leo
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本文认为，20世纪80年代和90年代的警察学者没有做那么多的理论驱动的实证研究，因为他们主要关注的是更专业的政策受众的需求。随着警察学者将警察领导人和政策制定者的利益和议程内化，他们成为警察改革议程的倡导者，警察学术的质量变得贫乏。本文评述了大卫·贝利的《未来的警察》（牛津大学出版社，1994年），这是一个很好的例子，政策受众在警察学术研究中的拉力。“未来警察”的目标是向警察领导人和决策者提供信息，帮助他们改组警察组织，以便更有效地预防和控制犯罪。因为他是为警察领导人，政治家和行政决策者写作，贝利的学术议程是非理论的，它不寻求加深或扩大我们对警察机构和行为的理解。本文还回顾了Paul Chevigny，《刀刃：美洲的警察暴力》（新出版社，1995年）。因为《刀锋》不是为警察局长、行政资助机构、警察基金会、立法者或其他政策制定者写的，所以它与他们的利益、框架和议程保持着关键的距离。与过去20年的许多警察奖学金不同，切维尼成功地抵制了政策受众在智力上的压制。《刀刃》是一部理论、方法论和批判性的作品，其他警察学者在未来应该效仿。
The essay argues that the police scholars in the 1980s and 1990s have not done as much theoretically-driven empirical research as previously because they have been primarily concerned with the needs of more specialized policy audiences. As police scholars internalize the interests and agendas of police leaders and policymakers, they become advocates of police reform agendas, and the quality of police scholarship becomes impoverished. The essay reviews David Bayley's Police for the Future (Oxford Univ. Press, 1994), which is a good example of the pull of the policy audience in police scholarship. The goal of Police for the Future is to provide police leaders and policy makers with information that will assist them to restructure police organizations so as to more effectively and efficiently prevent and control crime. Because he is writing for police leaders, politicians, and executive policymakers, Bayley's academic agenda is atheoretical, and it does not seek to deepen or broaden our understanding of police institutions and behavior. This essay also reviews Paul Chevigny, Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas (New Press, 1995). Because Edge of the Knife was not written for police chiefs, executive funding agencies, police foundation, legislators, or other policymakers, it retains a critical distance from their interests, frames, and agendas. Unlike much police scholarship in the past two decades, Chevigny successfully resists the intellectually deadening pull of the policy audience. Edge of the Knife is a work whose theoretical, methodological, and critical aspirations other police scholars would do well to emulate in the future.