D K Pryce
Biographic Data
| ID | 39550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D K Pryce |
| GIVEN NAMES | D K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pryce |
| SIGNATURE | PRYCE D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5859-6116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Plural Policing in the Ivory Coast
Baker’s idea of policing, as broadly defined, involves organized activities by state and non-state groups for ensuring the maintenance of order, security, and peace through prevention, deterrence, investigation, and punishment. The purpose of this article is to explore plural policing in the Ivory Coast and to understand how the various actors/providers negotiate to provide security and peace and maintain order in the country. Importantly, an eff…
Examining the Determinants of Black Americans’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants
The terms immigration and immigrants elicit powerful sentiments in the U.S. population. On the one hand, both terms unequivocally serve as a rallying cry by those who oppose immigration. On the other hand, these terms are embraced by a segment of the population that welcomes immigrants fleeing from poverty, persecution, and high levels of crime in their home countries. To add to the contemporary debate on immigration, the current study examines B…
Factors that Impact Attitudes Toward Terrorist Violence in Iraq
Understanding Iraqi citizens’ views about terrorism is important for transforming attitudes in Iraq, the larger Middle East, and Western societies. Terrorism is a global concern with far-reaching consequences for both perpetrators and victims of violent acts and reprisals. To add to our understanding of attitudes toward terrorism, we analyzed data from a convenience sample of 347 respondents who were university students in Iraq in 2017. The resul…
Gendered Criminality and Punishment
In this paper, we examine the connection between gendered criminality and punishment in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, we examine how the presence of a criminal associate, type of criminal associate, prior criminality, type of court, and number of presiding judges affect what types of punishments are meted out to juvenile male and female offenders. Using a sample of 437 court cases drawn from several court systems, we found that males were more like…
Extending the Reach of the Police Empowerment Hypothesis
A substantial body of research has explored the relationship between procedural justice, police legitimacy, and public cooperation. These studies indicate that procedural justice is a fundamental precursor to police legitimacy, subsequently influencing public cooperation with law enforcement. However, another consequence of police legitimacy that has garnered less scholarly attention is police empowerment. This study utilizes a nationally represe…
Police empowerment hypothesis
This study contributes to the literature by being the first to examine the relative impacts of normative (procedural justice and obligation to obey) and instrumental (police effectiveness and risk) factors of policing on police empowerment in Saudi Arabia. Conducting this study in the Middle East also broadens our understanding of attitudes toward the police beyond Western societies, as the Middle East has rarely been studied by researchers. Usin…
Kenyan Female Immigrants' Creation of a Virtual Enclave
Much of the research on ethnic enclaves in the United States has focussed on physical, geographic spaces or brick-and-mortar establishments that foster community building and provide shared resources for immigrant groups, such as those from Latin America, Asia and Europe. These studies often highlight the benefits and challenges enclaves provide, with only a limited discussion of how immigrant women use these spaces. Using survey data drawn from …
Factors Affecting the Quality of Life of Residents in the United States
Evaluating community members' views about their quality of life is important for improving quality of well-being in society, as most societies are interested in the collective well-being of the people. Moreover, quality-of-life research helps public officials to understand how well they are meeting the needs of the electorate. Using the theoretical framework of Maslow's Developmental Perspective, which argues that the higher the need satisfaction…
Empirical Examination of the Link Between Fear of Crime and Quality of Life
An Experimental Assessment of the Public’s Views on Immigration When the Terms Illegal and Undocumented are Juxtaposed
The twin topics of immigrants and immigration have been known to generate strong debates within the American body politic due to these debates’ reverberations in U.S. society. Immigration has remained a contentious policy issue for several decades because of Americans’ divergent opinions about opening the nation’s borders to immigrants. Using YouGov data, we show that employing the terms illegal immigrant and undocumented immigrant produced diffe…
The Challenges and Rewards of Carrying Out Qualitative Research on the Police in the African American Community
In this paper, we discuss the challenges and rewards of carrying out qualitative research on the police in the African American1 community. Using data drawn from interviews with seventy-seven African American adults in Durham, NC, we found that community member hostility toward research(ers) and fear of both neighbors and the police lowered African Americans’ willingness to be interviewed about their perceptions of and experiences with U.S. polic…
U.S. Residents’ Current Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration
Immigration is a fiery topic in U.S. society, as it generally brings to a boil native-born citizens’ disparate attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. While immigration has its fierce supporters and opponents alike, the topic provides fodder for politicians who use it to stoke the fear of an impending “immigrant invasion” among citizens. This is why scholars must regularly undertake empirical studies to assess community members’ views about …
The Antecedents of Obligation to Obey and Cooperation With Police
Assessing immigrant attitudes toward the police is becoming increasingly important because of increased migration from African nations to the West. Thus, this study examines the impact of procedural justice and other cognate concepts on the obligation to obey and willingness to cooperate with the police in a sample of African immigrant women domiciled in the United States. To have a better understanding of the antecedents of obligation to obey an…
The Criminal Police Officer
Although police decision making and behavior always face intense public scrutiny, officers’ criminal lifestyles have largely been ignored in national debates and discussions. The primary focus of this study was to understand factors that predicted police criminality. To achieve this objective, we analyzed a nationally representative dataset on officers who were arrested from 2005 to 2011 using advanced statistical approaches. Results obtained usi…
The Role of Procedural Justice in Policing
Empirical studies have pointed to the increasing importance of procedural justice as a tool for improving the relationship between the police and local communities. The mediating role of procedural justice continues to be embraced by scholars, practitioners, and community members; as a result, we examine in the present study African Americans’ attitudes toward the police via the interpretive lens of procedural justice policing. Using procedural j…
The role of coups d'état in Africa
Scholars and researchers have debated the impact of coups d'état on African nations since the first coup in West Africa, in 1963, toppled the Sylvanus Olympio government in Togo. In the current paper, we employ a potpourri of theoretical frameworks - legitimacy, democratic and political instability, justice as fairness, rational choice and deterrence - to explain why coups occur, their effects on the general population and how they can be curbed.…
The American Public's Views about Legal Immigration
This study assesses contemporary attitudes toward the Diversity Visa Lottery program. Specifically, we examine the public's views about the Diversity Visa Lottery, an immigrant visa program that was criticized by former President Donald Trump. Using a data set that approximates a nationally representative sample of U.S. residents, we found evidence that those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, those who did not vote for president in 2016, those …
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police
In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra…
A Sociological Perspective on Pidgin's Viability and Usefulness for Development in West Africa
This essay examines the viability and usefulness of pidgin for development in West Africa. Pidgin in West Africa has endured as a unifying medium of communication among people who do not share a common language. It has been lauded as a neutral language that facilitates trade, commerce, and everyday dealings among people of all walks of life. Some have proposed supplanting English, which is the official language in most of the West African countri…
A Neglected Problem
The relationship between the police and African Americans has had a contentious history for decades. To explore this topic further, we interviewed 77 African Americans in the City of Durham, NC, about the declining relationship between their community and the police. We find that African Americans’ perceptions of the police are nuanced and complicated by personal experiences, vicarious experiences of relatives and friends, and news from social me…
Trust and Confidence in Police Officers and the Institution of Policing
The relationship between the police and African Americans has been beset by a lack of trust for decades. Improving this relationship is important to scholars, practitioners, and citizens; as a result, we examine in this study African Americans’ trust and confidence in the police. Using trust questions found in the literature, we interviewed 77 African Americans in Durham, NC, to assess their views about the police. We found that for the police to…
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
I May Be an Immigrant, but I Am Not a Criminal
Procedural justice, obligation to obey, and cooperation with police in a sample of Jamaican citizens
Procedural justice theory plays a central role in understanding police–citizen relationships. To test the universality of procedural justice theory, researchers have tended to assess the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing in different geopolitical contexts. Building on Reisig and Lloyd’s study in Jamaica, we test in the current study the relative impacts of procedural justice (a normative factor) and police effectiv…
The relative impacts of normative and instrumental factors of policing on willingness to empower the police
This study is the first to assess citizen willingness to empower the police in the Caribbean. The study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of Jamaican citizens. Using data from a survey of Jamaican citizens, procedural justice and educational level predicted police empowerment; obligation to obey, age, sex, police effectiveness, and risk of sanctioning di…
U.S. Citizens’ Current Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration
Objective This study tests U.S. citizens’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. Immigrants and immigration educe strong, divergent sentiments in the U.S. population. While these sentiments, which are tied to public policy, have been examined in prior studies, it is important to test them regularly in empirical studies to observe any changes in attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. Methods I rely on the 2014 General Social Survey and…
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police
In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra…
I May Be an Immigrant, but I Am Not a Criminal
U.S. Residents’ Current Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration
Immigration is a fiery topic in U.S. society, as it generally brings to a boil native-born citizens’ disparate attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. While immigration has its fierce supporters and opponents alike, the topic provides fodder for politicians who use it to stoke the fear of an impending “immigrant invasion” among citizens. This is why scholars must regularly undertake empirical studies to assess community members’ views about …
Ghanaian immigrants’ differential trust in and obligation to obey the US police and Ghana police
Qualitative research enhances scholars’ and practitioners’ understanding of our social world. Most published studies on trust in the institution of policing and obligation to obey the police are undergirded by quantitative data; as a result, this research study enhances the literature on trust and obligation to obey by employing a qualitative approach. In this study, interviews obtained from two focus groups of Ghanaians in Alexandria, Virginia e…
Factors Affecting the Quality of Life of Residents in the United States
Evaluating community members' views about their quality of life is important for improving quality of well-being in society, as most societies are interested in the collective well-being of the people. Moreover, quality-of-life research helps public officials to understand how well they are meeting the needs of the electorate. Using the theoretical framework of Maslow's Developmental Perspective, which argues that the higher the need satisfaction…
The role of coups d'état in Africa
Scholars and researchers have debated the impact of coups d'état on African nations since the first coup in West Africa, in 1963, toppled the Sylvanus Olympio government in Togo. In the current paper, we employ a potpourri of theoretical frameworks - legitimacy, democratic and political instability, justice as fairness, rational choice and deterrence - to explain why coups occur, their effects on the general population and how they can be curbed.…
The American Public's Views about Legal Immigration
This study assesses contemporary attitudes toward the Diversity Visa Lottery program. Specifically, we examine the public's views about the Diversity Visa Lottery, an immigrant visa program that was criticized by former President Donald Trump. Using a data set that approximates a nationally representative sample of U.S. residents, we found evidence that those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, those who did not vote for president in 2016, those …
U.S. Citizens’ Current Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration
Objective This study tests U.S. citizens’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. Immigrants and immigration educe strong, divergent sentiments in the U.S. population. While these sentiments, which are tied to public policy, have been examined in prior studies, it is important to test them regularly in empirical studies to observe any changes in attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. Methods I rely on the 2014 General Social Survey and…
Ghanaian immigrants’ differential trust in and obligation to obey the US police and Ghana police
Qualitative research enhances scholars’ and practitioners’ understanding of our social world. Most published studies on trust in the institution of policing and obligation to obey the police are undergirded by quantitative data; as a result, this research study enhances the literature on trust and obligation to obey by employing a qualitative approach. In this study, interviews obtained from two focus groups of Ghanaians in Alexandria, Virginia e…
The Benefits of Criminal Justice Internships at a Historically Black University
There are numerous studies on the benefits of internships in the extant literature, although many of these studies focused on the views of students and professors/instructors. These studies were also conducted mainly in predominantly White institutions. The present study makes an important contribution to the literature by being the first to examine site supervisors’ evaluations of criminal justice interns at a historically Black university (HBCU…
Procedural justice, obligation to obey, and cooperation with police in a sample of Jamaican citizens
Procedural justice theory plays a central role in understanding police–citizen relationships. To test the universality of procedural justice theory, researchers have tended to assess the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing in different geopolitical contexts. Building on Reisig and Lloyd’s study in Jamaica, we test in the current study the relative impacts of procedural justice (a normative factor) and police effectiv…
The relative impacts of normative and instrumental factors of policing on willingness to empower the police
This study is the first to assess citizen willingness to empower the police in the Caribbean. The study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of Jamaican citizens. Using data from a survey of Jamaican citizens, procedural justice and educational level predicted police empowerment; obligation to obey, age, sex, police effectiveness, and risk of sanctioning di…
A Sociological Perspective on Pidgin's Viability and Usefulness for Development in West Africa
This essay examines the viability and usefulness of pidgin for development in West Africa. Pidgin in West Africa has endured as a unifying medium of communication among people who do not share a common language. It has been lauded as a neutral language that facilitates trade, commerce, and everyday dealings among people of all walks of life. Some have proposed supplanting English, which is the official language in most of the West African countri…
A Neglected Problem
The relationship between the police and African Americans has had a contentious history for decades. To explore this topic further, we interviewed 77 African Americans in the City of Durham, NC, about the declining relationship between their community and the police. We find that African Americans’ perceptions of the police are nuanced and complicated by personal experiences, vicarious experiences of relatives and friends, and news from social me…
Trust and Confidence in Police Officers and the Institution of Policing
The relationship between the police and African Americans has been beset by a lack of trust for decades. Improving this relationship is important to scholars, practitioners, and citizens; as a result, we examine in this study African Americans’ trust and confidence in the police. Using trust questions found in the literature, we interviewed 77 African Americans in Durham, NC, to assess their views about the police. We found that for the police to…
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
I May Be an Immigrant, but I Am Not a Criminal
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police
In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra…
The Criminal Police Officer
Although police decision making and behavior always face intense public scrutiny, officers’ criminal lifestyles have largely been ignored in national debates and discussions. The primary focus of this study was to understand factors that predicted police criminality. To achieve this objective, we analyzed a nationally representative dataset on officers who were arrested from 2005 to 2011 using advanced statistical approaches. Results obtained usi…
The Role of Procedural Justice in Policing
Empirical studies have pointed to the increasing importance of procedural justice as a tool for improving the relationship between the police and local communities. The mediating role of procedural justice continues to be embraced by scholars, practitioners, and community members; as a result, we examine in the present study African Americans’ attitudes toward the police via the interpretive lens of procedural justice policing. Using procedural j…
The role of coups d'état in Africa
Scholars and researchers have debated the impact of coups d'état on African nations since the first coup in West Africa, in 1963, toppled the Sylvanus Olympio government in Togo. In the current paper, we employ a potpourri of theoretical frameworks - legitimacy, democratic and political instability, justice as fairness, rational choice and deterrence - to explain why coups occur, their effects on the general population and how they can be curbed.…
The American Public's Views about Legal Immigration
This study assesses contemporary attitudes toward the Diversity Visa Lottery program. Specifically, we examine the public's views about the Diversity Visa Lottery, an immigrant visa program that was criticized by former President Donald Trump. Using a data set that approximates a nationally representative sample of U.S. residents, we found evidence that those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, those who did not vote for president in 2016, those …
An Experimental Assessment of the Public’s Views on Immigration When the Terms Illegal and Undocumented are Juxtaposed
The twin topics of immigrants and immigration have been known to generate strong debates within the American body politic due to these debates’ reverberations in U.S. society. Immigration has remained a contentious policy issue for several decades because of Americans’ divergent opinions about opening the nation’s borders to immigrants. Using YouGov data, we show that employing the terms illegal immigrant and undocumented immigrant produced diffe…
The Challenges and Rewards of Carrying Out Qualitative Research on the Police in the African American Community
In this paper, we discuss the challenges and rewards of carrying out qualitative research on the police in the African American1 community. Using data drawn from interviews with seventy-seven African American adults in Durham, NC, we found that community member hostility toward research(ers) and fear of both neighbors and the police lowered African Americans’ willingness to be interviewed about their perceptions of and experiences with U.S. polic…
U.S. Residents’ Current Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration
Immigration is a fiery topic in U.S. society, as it generally brings to a boil native-born citizens’ disparate attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. While immigration has its fierce supporters and opponents alike, the topic provides fodder for politicians who use it to stoke the fear of an impending “immigrant invasion” among citizens. This is why scholars must regularly undertake empirical studies to assess community members’ views about …
The Antecedents of Obligation to Obey and Cooperation With Police
Assessing immigrant attitudes toward the police is becoming increasingly important because of increased migration from African nations to the West. Thus, this study examines the impact of procedural justice and other cognate concepts on the obligation to obey and willingness to cooperate with the police in a sample of African immigrant women domiciled in the United States. To have a better understanding of the antecedents of obligation to obey an…
Factors that Impact Attitudes Toward Terrorist Violence in Iraq
Understanding Iraqi citizens’ views about terrorism is important for transforming attitudes in Iraq, the larger Middle East, and Western societies. Terrorism is a global concern with far-reaching consequences for both perpetrators and victims of violent acts and reprisals. To add to our understanding of attitudes toward terrorism, we analyzed data from a convenience sample of 347 respondents who were university students in Iraq in 2017. The resul…
Gendered Criminality and Punishment
In this paper, we examine the connection between gendered criminality and punishment in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, we examine how the presence of a criminal associate, type of criminal associate, prior criminality, type of court, and number of presiding judges affect what types of punishments are meted out to juvenile male and female offenders. Using a sample of 437 court cases drawn from several court systems, we found that males were more like…
Extending the Reach of the Police Empowerment Hypothesis
A substantial body of research has explored the relationship between procedural justice, police legitimacy, and public cooperation. These studies indicate that procedural justice is a fundamental precursor to police legitimacy, subsequently influencing public cooperation with law enforcement. However, another consequence of police legitimacy that has garnered less scholarly attention is police empowerment. This study utilizes a nationally represe…
Police empowerment hypothesis
This study contributes to the literature by being the first to examine the relative impacts of normative (procedural justice and obligation to obey) and instrumental (police effectiveness and risk) factors of policing on police empowerment in Saudi Arabia. Conducting this study in the Middle East also broadens our understanding of attitudes toward the police beyond Western societies, as the Middle East has rarely been studied by researchers. Usin…
Kenyan Female Immigrants' Creation of a Virtual Enclave
Much of the research on ethnic enclaves in the United States has focussed on physical, geographic spaces or brick-and-mortar establishments that foster community building and provide shared resources for immigrant groups, such as those from Latin America, Asia and Europe. These studies often highlight the benefits and challenges enclaves provide, with only a limited discussion of how immigrant women use these spaces. Using survey data drawn from …
Factors Affecting the Quality of Life of Residents in the United States
Evaluating community members' views about their quality of life is important for improving quality of well-being in society, as most societies are interested in the collective well-being of the people. Moreover, quality-of-life research helps public officials to understand how well they are meeting the needs of the electorate. Using the theoretical framework of Maslow's Developmental Perspective, which argues that the higher the need satisfaction…
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