6 / The Political Context: Public Pressures on the Police

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Tables x
5. Introduction: Variations in Traffic-Law Enforcement 1
6. Part I / Traffic-Law Enforcement in Massachusetts
7. 1 / The Formal Organization 21
8. 2 / Lynn: Leniency in a Residual Police Function 45
9. 3 / Waltham: Pleasing All of the People All of the Time 59
10. 4 / Maiden: Political Activity and Complacency 77
11. 5 / Cambridge: Changing Organizational Incentives 88
12. Part II / Policymaking in Traffic-Law Enforcement
13. 6 / The Political Context: Public Pressures on the Police 111
14. 7 / The Influence of Environment 127
15. 8 / Police Discretion and Effective Rates of Law Enforcement 150
16. Appendix: Research Methods 167
17. Index 173
18. Backmatter 175