Wesley G Skogan

Datos Biográficos

ID73991
NOMBREWesley G Skogan
NOMBRESWesley G
APELLIDOSkogan
FIRMASKOGAN W G
AFILIACIONESNorthwestern University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS514
TOTAL COMO AUTOR57
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1975
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H10

  • The Past as Prologue

    Open AccessB Mccarthy, John Hagan et al.ARTICLERace and Justice2024

    Quantitative analyses show that police stop and frisks are highly concentrated by neighborhood. Interview and ethnographic studies show that police routinely share information about neighborhood attributes including crime rates and demographic characteristics such as racial and ethnic composition and economic conditions. Investigations suggest that police also share information about complaints against them. Our analysis bridges these three liter…

  • Block clubs and crime in Chicago

    Open AccessAleksandra J Snowden, Amanda I Seligman et al.ARTICLECities2024Referencias: 10

  • Why study policing comparatively

    Wesley G SkoganARTICLEPolicing & Society2022

  • The future of CCTV

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2019Citada por: 4

  • The Commission and the Police

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 3

    The major conclusions advanced in the 1967 report by the U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice under President Johnson are reviewed in this article. Six of the Commission's visions for law enforcement are described, and subsequent changes in the character of American policing are traced. Many of the concerns of the Commission linger until this day. Progress on many fronts has been halting, their impact more …

  • Police and Society in Brazil

    Vicente Riccio, Wesley G SkoganBOOKPolice and Society in Brazil2017

  • Training police for procedural justice

    Open AccessWesley G Skogan, Maarten Van Craen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Criminology2015

  • Disorder and Decline

    Open AccessWesley G Skogan, Wesley SkoganARTICLEJournal of Research in Crime and…2015

    Objectives: A significant and diverse body of research has built up during the 30+ years since the publication of Wilson and Kelling’s seminal “broken windows” article. They affected research, policy, and politics around the world. This article summarizes some of the main strands of research that have since sprung up around these and other claims. Results: This article discusses approaches to conceptualizing and measuring disorder and weighs the …

  • Explaining officer compliance

    Open AccessNicole E Haas, Maarten Van Craen et al.ARTICLECriminology & Criminal Justice2015Citada por: 9Referencias: 14

    The extent to which police officers obey instructions and policies is of permanent concern to police leaders and the community. This is especially the case when it comes to preventing police misconduct, such as the use of excessive force. In the current study we examined officer compliance from a procedural justice and social exchange perspective. Using data collected among 536 police officers of the Metropolitana Police in Buenos Aires, we explo…

  • Use of force and police reform in Brazil

    Wesley G SkoganARTICLEPolice Practice and Research2013

    This study examined self-reported use of force on the street by police officers in Brazil. The survey was conducted as part of an evaluation of a nationwide reform effort aimed at upgrading police professionalism, tightening standards for police operations, improving managerial practices, enhancing quality of life among the lower ranks, and inculcating greater respect for citizens’ rights through training. Respondents were serving in 26 of the co…

  • Community policing in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    Vicente Riccio, Marco Aurélio Ruediger et al.ARTICLEPolice Practice and Research2013

    This article evaluates the adoption of a new model for community policing in two communities in Rio de Janeiro. They were initially dominated by heavily armed criminal gangs that challenged the hegemony of the Brazilian state. A version of community policing was introduced in these two poor areas. Its principal feature was a commitment to delivering honest, professional, and respectful policing; other initiatives commonly associated with communit…

  • Disorder and Crime

    Wesley G SkoganBOOKThe Oxford handbook on crime…2012

  • Assessing asymmetry

    Wesley G SkoganARTICLEPolicing & Society2012Citada por: 15Referencias: 4

    This article describes the evolution of a project examining the impact of encounters on public confidence in the police. It reviews the background of the research, the central puzzle that drove the project, and the events that led to its discovery. I was surprised by my initial inability to confirm the expected relationship between encounters and confidence. Rather than encouraging confidence, encounters that people themselves rated positively di…

  • Community-based partnerships and crime prevention

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2011Citada por: 3

  • Concern About Crime and Confidence in the Police

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLEPolice Quarterly2009

    This article examines the relationship between confidence in the police and concern about crime. A large body of research on opinions about police treats confidence in the police as a dependent variable that is influenced by assessments of neighborhood conditions. These studies argue that people hold police accountable for local crime, disorder, and fear. Another large body of literature on public perceptions of crime treats concern about crime a…

  • Police–Community Relations in a Majority-Black City

    Open AccessR Weitzer, Steven A Tuch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Crime and…2008

    Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interactional, and ecological levels. This article examines the role of each factor in shaping citizens' percep…

  • Traffic Stops in the Pacific Northwest

    Richard G Greenleaf, Wesley G Skogan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Criminal…2008

    This study examines the distribution of police traffic warning citations in a large northwestern city. Warning tickets were instituted to document the exercise of police discretion in the disposition of traffic stops. The paper tests three competing hypotheses about how these citations are distributed: law enforcement, traffic enforcement, and group threat. The findings show greater support for the group threat explanation. African Americans were…

  • Broken Windows

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2008Citada por: 7Referencias: 3

  • Why reforms fail

    Wesley G SkoganARTICLEPolicing & Society2008Citada por: 24Referencias: 2

    Police reform is risky and hard, and efforts to innovate in policing often fall short of expectations. This chapter examines sources of resistance to change in policing. Some are internal, including opposition to reform at virtually all levels of the organization and among special units. The position of unions vis-a-vis change is highly variable, particularly if proposals do not threaten working conditions and officer safety. Politicians and othe…

  • Police Innovation

    Open AccessWesley G Skogan, Stephen D Mastrofski et al.BOOKPolice Innovation2006

    Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their fundamental mission, the nature of the core strategies of policing, and the character of their relationships with the communities that they serve. This volume brings together leading police scholars to examine eight major innovations which emerged dur…

  • Asymmetry in the Impact of Encounters with Police

    Wesley G SkoganARTICLEPolicing & Society2006Citada por: 163Referencias: 15

    This article examines the impact of personal experience on popular assessments of the quality of police service. Following past research, it addresses the influence of personal and neighbourhood factors on confidence in the police. It then focuses on the additional impact of positive and negative personal experiences with the police. Several studies of police encounters with the public have noted that the relationship between how people recall be…

  • Citizen Satisfaction with Police Encounters

    Open AccessWesley G SkoganARTICLEPolice Quarterly2005

    This article examines the character and consequences of encounters between police and residents of the city of Chicago. It describes the frequency with which they contacted the police for assistance or support and how often they were stopped by them. Follow-up questions gathered information about the character of those contacts. The analysis contrasts the effects of experiential, on-scene factors with those of race, age, gender, and language on s…

  • The Diffusion of Information Technology in Policing

    Wesley G Skogan, Susan M HartnettARTICLEPolice Practice and Research2005

    This study examines the diffusion of innovation among municipal police departments in northeastern Illinois. The opportunity to adopt an innovation arose when the Chicago Police Department (CPD) opened access to elements of its new centralized Data Warehouse to other criminal justice agencies. There is a long history of research on the diffusion of innovation, and a number of recent projects have applied this work to policing. Like innovation stu…

  • Crime, Disorder and Decay in Chicago's Latino Community

    Wesley G Skogan, Lynn SteinerARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Criminal…2004

    This paper utilizes results of citywide surveys to examine trends in Chicago during the 1990s in the extent of crime, social disorder, and physical decay. These trends depict a tale of three cities, for trends in neighborhood problems differed dramatically for Whites, Blacks, and Latinos. All fared differently, and no group was "average." By the beginning of the new century, Whites saw some improvement in neighborhood conditions, and Blacks exper…

  • Lawful Policing

    Open AccessWesley G Skogan, Tracey L MearesARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2004Citada por: 17Referencias: 16

    Police compliance with the law is one of the most important aspects of a democratic society. Americans expect the police to enforce laws to promote safety and to reduce crime, victimization, and fear, but no one believes that the police should have unlimited power to do so. We expect police to enforce laws fairly according to law and rules that circumscribe their enforcement powers. The existence of these rules justify the claim that police are a…