Keeping the Peace: Police Discretion and the Mentally Disordered in Chicago, 1980-1981
Description
For this data collection, information on police-citizen
encounters was collected to explore the peacekeeping functions of the
police and their handling of encounters with mentally ill persons. The
data were gathered for part or all of 270 shifts through observations
by researchers riding in police cars in two Chicago police districts
during a 14-month period in 1980-1981. In Part 1 (Shift Level),
information was collected once per shift on the general level of
activity during the shift and the observer's perceptions of
emotions/attitudes displayed by the police officers he/she
observed. The file also contains, for each of the 270 shifts,
information about the personal characteristics, work history, and
working relationships of the police officers observed. Part 2
(Encounter Level) contains detailed information on each police-citizen
encounter including its nature, location, police actions and/or
responses, citizens involved, and their characteristics and
behavior. A unique and consistent shift identification number is
attached to each encounter so that information about police officer
characteristics from Part 1 may be matched with Part 2. There are
1,382 police-citizen encounters involving 2,555 citizens in this
collection.
Resources
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Description |
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ICPSR08438.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08438.v1 |
Tags
- job-history
- criminal-justice-system
- police-officers
- police-citizen-interactions
- police-performance
- decision-making
- mental-disorders
- work-attitudes
- mental-health
- emotional-states
- police-response
- offenders