WALKER, Samuel
Science and politics in police research : reflections on their tangled relationship - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2004
Police research in the United States has been heavily influenced by external politics. This influence is agenda-setting rather than truth-suppressing. Agenda-setting influence causes researchers to undertake research on a subject or subjects they had previously neglected. The influence of politics on research, greatly enriched social science research on the police, forcing scholars and methodological issues they had previously negleted. The relationship between police environment is ectrmely complex and is by no means simple or one-directional. There are also some important examples, notably, community policing, of where research findings have influenced the political agenda
Science and politics in police research : reflections on their tangled relationship - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2004
Police research in the United States has been heavily influenced by external politics. This influence is agenda-setting rather than truth-suppressing. Agenda-setting influence causes researchers to undertake research on a subject or subjects they had previously neglected. The influence of politics on research, greatly enriched social science research on the police, forcing scholars and methodological issues they had previously negleted. The relationship between police environment is ectrmely complex and is by no means simple or one-directional. There are also some important examples, notably, community policing, of where research findings have influenced the political agenda
