Gender Differences in the Effect of Community Policing Training on Police-Juvenile Relations

• In Event: Evaluation of Police Training Programs

Abstract

Community policing emerged as a distinct paradigm of policing in the 1970s, and ever since then, it has been changing the established view of police functions and making the very notions of police functions more dynamic and elastic. Community police training is the key of successful community policing implementation to make officers familiar with dynamic and elastic police functions through community policing training. This paper will examine gender differences in police use of force in police-juvenile encounters by using the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN) data 1997-1998. This will examine the impact of community policing training on police use of force and the moderating effects of gender in the impact of community policing training on police use of force. Policy and research implications will be discussed.

Author

• Haemi Won, State University of New York, University at Albany