Bradford, Ben 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5480-5638
(2011)
Convergence, not divergence? Trends and trajectories in public contact and confidence in the police.
British Journal of Criminology, 51 (1).
pp. 179-200.
ISSN 0007-0955
Abstract
Public trust and confidence are vital to the police function. There has been much comment and debate about the apparent decline in confidence in the British police since the 1950s, most frequently evidenced by data from the British Crime Survey (BCS). Yet, there has been relatively little in-depth interrogation of the data at the heart of the discussion. Pooling data from 11 sweeps of the BCS (1984 to 2005/06), this paper shows a homogenization over time in trends in trust and confidence and experiences of encounters with the police. This pattern is found across both age and ethnicity, and can also be identified in other variables. The story that emerges therefore differs from analyses that emphasize the increasingly diffuse and variable nature of public experiences of the police.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Author |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2011 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 01:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33490 |
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