William B Waegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William B Waegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | William B |
| FAMILY NAME | Waegel |
| SIGNATURE | WAEGEL W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force
Police shoot people while performing their occupational activities. This paper examines how police interpret, explain, and justify the use of lethal force. Formal rules governing this area of police behavior are vague, produce uncertainty, and provide only weak guidance for officers. The occupational subculture of police contains a set of shared understandings as to when, why, and against whom shooting is justified. Subcultural understandings als…
Organizational Responses to Imputations of Deviance
This paper proposes that the study of deviance be expanded to include organizations as actors to which deviance may be imputed. In contrast to traditional empirical studies which tend to emphasize powerless persons who passively accept attributions of deviance, this study focuses on powerful actors who actively defend themselves. Attention is focused on the types of accounts offered by one organization, the Central Intelligence Agency, in reactio…
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work
This study of the interpretation and handling of criminal incidents is based on nine months of participant observation in a city police detective division. Detectives' ethods for handling ordinary cases do not follow from the formal organization of the work or the character of normal supervisory practices, but rather from the bureaucratic requirements of 1) producing reports and 2) making the proper number and type of arrests. The essence of the …
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work
This study of the interpretation and handling of criminal incidents is based on nine months of participant observation in a city police detective division. Detectives' ethods for handling ordinary cases do not follow from the formal organization of the work or the character of normal supervisory practices, but rather from the bureaucratic requirements of 1) producing reports and 2) making the proper number and type of arrests. The essence of the …
How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force
Police shoot people while performing their occupational activities. This paper examines how police interpret, explain, and justify the use of lethal force. Formal rules governing this area of police behavior are vague, produce uncertainty, and provide only weak guidance for officers. The occupational subculture of police contains a set of shared understandings as to when, why, and against whom shooting is justified. Subcultural understandings als…
Organizational Responses to Imputations of Deviance
This paper proposes that the study of deviance be expanded to include organizations as actors to which deviance may be imputed. In contrast to traditional empirical studies which tend to emphasize powerless persons who passively accept attributions of deviance, this study focuses on powerful actors who actively defend themselves. Attention is focused on the types of accounts offered by one organization, the Central Intelligence Agency, in reactio…
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work
This study of the interpretation and handling of criminal incidents is based on nine months of participant observation in a city police detective division. Detectives' ethods for handling ordinary cases do not follow from the formal organization of the work or the character of normal supervisory practices, but rather from the bureaucratic requirements of 1) producing reports and 2) making the proper number and type of arrests. The essence of the …
How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force
Police shoot people while performing their occupational activities. This paper examines how police interpret, explain, and justify the use of lethal force. Formal rules governing this area of police behavior are vague, produce uncertainty, and provide only weak guidance for officers. The occupational subculture of police contains a set of shared understandings as to when, why, and against whom shooting is justified. Subcultural understandings als…
Computer Science (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Attribution (1 work)