What's in a Name? The Occupational Identity of Conservation and Natural Resource Oriented Law Enforcement Agencies
What's in a Name? The Occupational Identity of Conservation and Natural Resource Oriented Law Enforcement Agencies
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DOI：
10.1007/s12103-014-9286-y
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Shelley, Tara
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作者：
Patten, Ryan;Crow, Matthew;Shelley, Tara
本研究探讨：(1)鱼类和野生动物警察机构的职业身份；(2)考虑到这些机构已经扩大了他们的工作重点，包括更多传统的执法。为了调查这些问题，我们对以鱼类和野生动物为重点的国家级执法机构网站进行了内容分析，以更好地了解他们如何自我识别（机构名称和职位），他们的使命声明，宣誓官员的权力范围（限于特殊目的或包括一般执法权力），以及支持他们所陈述的机构使命的教育和培训要求。调查结果表明，鱼类和野生动物警察机构正在开展一系列支持一般执法作用的工作。这项研究表明，许多鱼类和野生动物警察机构及其官员似乎正在将角色转变为更广义的执法人员，但这种变化并非普遍存在。
This research explores: (1) the occupational identity of fish and wildlife police agencies and (2) considers an emerging concern that these agencies have widened their work priorities to include more traditional law enforcement. To investigate these issues a content analysis of state level law enforcement agency websites with a fish and wildlife focus is used to better understand how they self-identify (agency name and job titles), their mission statements, the scope of power sworn officers have (limited to special purpose or inclusive of general law enforcement powers), and the educational and training requirements to support their stated agency missions. The findings demonstrate fish and wildlife police agencies are engaged in a scope of work that supports a general law enforcement role. This study demonstrates many fish and wildlife police agencies and their officers appear to be transitioning roles into more generalized law enforcement officers, but this change is not universal.