POLICE CYNICISM RECONSIDERED An Application of Smallest Space Analysis

Autor:	David M. Rafky
Rok vydání:	1975
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Variables Conceptualization media_common.quotation_subject Population Frustration Sample (statistics) Criminology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Cynicism Scale (social sciences) Psychology education Law Social psychology media_common Causal model
Zdroj:	Criminology. 13:168-192
ISSN:	1745-9125 0011-1384
DOI:	10.1111/j.1745-9125.1975.tb00664.x
Popis:	Niederhoffer, following Durkheim, proposed a linear causal model to explain police anomia. Using data from an availability sample of New York City police, he breaks into the chain of variables at frustration and terminates the analysis with cynicism measured by a twenty-item scale. This study replicates Niederhoffer's research with a population of urban police, examines the nature and incidence of cynicism, and tests the relationships between various indices of frustration, cynicism, and anomia. Contrary to Niederhoffer's expectations, cynicism is not prevalent among police outside New York City; cynicism my be described adequately only with reference to three dimensions; most indices of frustration do not significantly correlate with two subscales of cynicism; and cynicism does not intervene in the relationships between a number of independent variables and anornh. An alternate model based on Merton's conceptualization of anomin as the result of a discrepancy in cultural values and institutionalized means for attaining such goals was tested. It was found that perceived means-goals discrepancy vis-a-vis legal norms and goals intervened in the relationships between rank and anomia and years on force and anomia.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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