THE STUDY OF POLICE ROLES AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT MODELS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST AND DEMONSTRATION

Autor: Kuo-jung Chang, 張國榮
Rok vydání: 2006
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 94
On the process of installation of high pollution facilities, the syndrome of NIMBY ( Not In My Backyard ) often leads to all kinds of protest and demonstrations from local citizens. Police is not accountable to environmental protection events, yet police is still accountable to the Act of Parade and Meeting. It is, therefore, the police responsibility to get involved in local people''s protest and demonstration activities directly or indirectly. This study attempts to explore the role of the police and the proper model of the police while they face local people anti- high pollution facilities protest activities. Taking Chiayi County and Chiayi City destructors and public and private power plants as research objects, this research uses questionnaires to collect relevant data, this study finds: 1. Over 86.5% respondents oppose to install high pollution facilities around their neighborhood; 2. most of the respondents appeal to compensation once the decision of installing high pollution facilities had been made, next popular appeal is to taking people’s health condition into consideration; 3. there is a significant perceptive difference between the police officers and citizens who were interviewed. Citizens prefer to use negotiation process or to use police physical force to deal with protest problem, however, police officers prefer to appeal police physical force to solve the problem; 4. with regard to the proper role of the police when they face confrontation, espondents prefer police to be a '' order maintainer'', '' negotiator'', ''crime suppressor'', and '' policy assistant'' in turn; 5.there is a different result if the police adopts different conflict management model. Citizen would try to negotiate with authority once the police resort to negotiation and physical force; citizen would soften their confrontation if the police resort to physical force only. Nevertheless, ''physical force model'' is not able to solve the problem of people''s protest and demonstrations.
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