Police Requests for Compliance: Coercive and Procedurally Just Tactics

Police Requests for Compliance: Coercive and Procedurally Just Tactics
John D. McCluskey
July 2003

ISBN-13:  978-1-931202-61-9 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / vii, 213 pages

Price   $60.00

Description

Using observational data from two metropolitan police departments, McCluskey studies citizen compliance with police requests for self-control in face-to-face encounters. The central question is whether coercive tactics (e.g. commanding a suspect) or procedurally just” tactics (e.g. giving a suspect the opportunity to tell his or her side of the situation) are more powerful in explaining citizen’s decisions to comply with police requests. A series of multivariate logistic models indicate that the “justness” of police tactics has the greatest power in explaining why citizens comply with police requests for self-control.

About the Author

John D. McCluskey is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University at Albany.