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Denham, Magdalena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the impact that function, experience, and training of Independent School District School Resource Officers (ISD SROs) have on school climate. The participants were ISD SROs (n = 172) and teachers (n = 162) located in middle and high schools in Texas. Method: The Role of Law…
Descriptors: School Districts, Police, Educational Environment, Law Enforcement
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Ask, Karl – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
A survey of police officers (n = 211) and prosecutors (n = 190) in Sweden was conducted to assess law personnel's beliefs about the behaviors and reactions of victims of violent crimes.There were considerable differences in the expected behavioral display of different types of crime victims, with rape and domestic assault victims seen as…
Descriptors: Rape, Crime, Police, Foreign Countries
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Weidner, Robert R.; Terrill, William – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2005
Turk's theory of norm resistance explains how authority-subject relations can be structured in manners that have different probabilities of overt conflict (norm resistance). Building on previous research by Lanza-Kaduce and Greenleaf, this study uses data collected as part of an observational study of the police in Indianapolis, Indiana, and St.…
Descriptors: Conflict, Statistical Data, Probability, Norms