The Police and the Majority: The Neglect of the Obvious?

Lea J. Young J. , 1982, “The Riots in Britain 1981: Urban Violence and Political Marginalisation”, in Cowell D. Jones T. Young J. (eds) Policing the Riots, Junction Books: London.

For academic survey research see, for example:

Royal Commission on the Police, 1962, HMSO Cmnd 1728. Belson W. , 1975 The Police and the Public, Harper and Row: London and New York.

Sparks R. F. Genn H. G. Dodd D. J. , 1977, Surveying Victims , Wiley. For examples of opinion survey information demonstrating this public support, see: OPC reported in The Times , April 30, 1974, and, MORI reported in The Times, March 16, 1980.

See, for example: The results of an NOP survey reported in The Observer in October 1981, which demonstrated a decrease in public confidence in the police, and also a poll by Audience Research reported in The Times in May, 1981.

A decrease in public confidence was also demonstrated by the pilot survey for this study, in Jones S. J. , “Police-Public Relationships survey: Report on the pilot stage of the research”. Unpublished report by the Department of Social Administration, University College, Cardiff, March, 1980.

Hough M. Mayhew P. , 1983, The British Crime Survey, First Report, Home Office Research Study No. 76, HMSO.

As documented, for example, by: Belson W. , op cit, and, Armstrong G. , and Wilson M. , 1973, “City politics and deviancy amplification”, in Taylor I. Taylor L. , (eds) Politics and Deviance , Penguin: Harmondsworth. West D. J. Farrington D. P. , 1977, The Delinquent Way of Life, Heineman: London.

Shaw M. Williamson W. , 1972, “Public attitudes to the Police”, Criminologist, pp. 18–32.

Moore C. Brown J. , 1981, Community versus Crime, Bedford Square Press: London, p. 3.

ibid, p. 3.

Jones S. J. , 1982, “Police Inter-Rank Attitudes: A survey of police officers” attitudes towards their organisation”, Unpublished report prepared by the Department of Social Administration, University College, Cardiff.

See, for example: Nadel S. W. , 1978, “Measurement Systems and Organisational Goals in a large Metropolitan Police Department”, Police Studies , Vol. 1, 3, pp. 39–45, and, Jones J. M. , 1980, Organisational Aspects of Police Behaviour, Gower Publishing Co. Ltd.: Farnborough.

For an account of the “working personality” of police officers see: Skolnick J. H. , 1975, Justice Without Trial , Wiley. The effect of the dramatic aspects of police work on police sub-cultural attitudes are described by Manning P. K. , 1977, Police Work , Cambridge: Mass. Also, for the way in which the subculture rewards “real” police work, see, Punch M. , 1979, Policing the Inner-City , MacMillan Press Ltd., and, Punch M. , “The Policeman's Occupational Culture”, in Sociologische Gids, 25,6, pp. 517–530.

Scarman Lord , 1981, “Report of an Inquiry into the Brixton Disorders”, HMSO, Cmnd 8427, para. 5.3.

See, for example: Hay D. Linebaugh P. Thompson E. P. , (eds), 1975, Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in 18th Century England, Allen Lane: London. and,.

Fitzgerald M. McLennan G. Pawson J. , (eds), 1981, Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul: London.

Galbraith J. K. , 1969, The New Industrial Estate, Penguin: Harmondsworth.