40 research outputs found
Speaking Freely about Reducing Violence against Women: A Harm Reduction Strategy from the Law and Social Science of Pornography
Accommodation and institutional talk: communicative dimensions of police-civilian interactions
In this chapter, we focus on Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)'s utility for analyzing one under-studied domain of intergroup communication, namely police-civilian encounters. By so doing, we focus on one aspect of institutional talk where a power imbalance is clearly evident. In addition to presenting recent self-report data relevant to this initiative, new intercultural data from China, Taiwan and the US, are also introduced. But first, we overview some important assumptions and concepts of the theory, interlaced with a selection of empirical research studies
Building the Case: Why Should We Care About Police-Community Relations? Current Research
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Building the Case: Why Should We Care About Police-Community Relations? Current Research
Speaking Freely about Reducing Violence against Women: A Harm Reduction Strategy from the Law and Social Science of Pornography
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Jail Tour Survey
This instrument is used to compare attitudes toward law enforcement before and after county jail tours
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Santa Barbara Resident Survey (English Version) on Attitudes Toward Santa Barbara Police Department
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Liability, Stress and Community: Communicative Issues in Policing
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Santa Barbara Resident Survey (Spanish Version backtranslated to English) on Attitudes Toward Santa Barbara Police Department
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