The functional nature of police reform: The ‘myth’ of controlling the police
The functional nature of police reform: The ‘myth’ of controlling the police
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警察改革的职能本质：控制警察的“神话”
DOI：
10.1080/07418828500088381
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发表时间：
1985
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Gary W. Sykes
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作者：
Gary W. Sykes
至少50年来，主要的运动试图通过专业化、政策制定和行政权力下放来改革警察及其机构。这些努力的一个主要目标是使街道官员的自由裁量权服从官僚的正当程序。最近的一些证据表明，这种改革主要产生了变化的表象，而没有从根本上改变现状。另一种假设是：改革者忽略了警察的作用，以社区为基础，在维持和平的情况下，宪法外的功能性质，并反映了有关的价值观，以维持秩序。自由社会解决警察职能的不正常现象的方法可能是，培养警察服从正当程序约束的神话，同时让他们在实际意义上相对自由地对维持秩序和维持和平的需要作出反应。有效处理混乱可能需要警察自治，同时试图使他们服从...
For at least fifty years, major movements attempted to reform police and their institutions through professionalization, policy making, and administrative decentralization. One major goal of these efforts was to subordinate street officer discretion to bureaucratic due process. Some recent evidence suggests that such reforms produced primarily the appearance of change without fundamentally altering the status quo. An alternative hypothesis is proposed: Reformers ignored the functional nature of the police role as community-based, extra-constitutional in peacekeeping situations, and reflective of the values related to the maintenance of order. It may be that liberal society solves the anomaly of the police function by fostering the myth that police are subordinate to due process constraints, while leaving them relatively free in a practical sense to respond to the need for order maintenance and peacekeeping. Effective handling of disorder may require police autonomy, while attempting to subordinate them to...