The Reassurance Factor in Police Patrol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9681129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | CHARLES BAHN (City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 338-345 |
| Publication date | 1974-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1974.tb00640.x |
| OpenAlex | W2153361583 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 3 |
In addition to its more obvious functions, police patrol also has the function of citizen reassurance‐providing feelings of safety that a citizen experiences when he knows that a police officer or patrol car is nearby. Since this function is highly related to both visibility and awareness, it is svggested that in locations of both cognitive centrality and high density, fixed posts be established that would both serve the reassurance function and provide another communication link between the police and the public. Recent studies by Milgram. Sommer, Hall, and Lynch have all contributed to our understanding of what Milgram calls “the congnitive map of the city,” and this concept can be utilized in the pursuit of safety
Centrality · Computer security · Criminology · Feeling · Function (biology · Geography · Milgram experiment · Officer · Political science · Visibility · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology
Police Stations, Architecture and Public Reassurance
Concern About Crime and Confidence in the Police
‘It’s on my head’
Procedural Fairness and Fear of Crime
Copping a Cop
Fear of Crime
Individual and community predictors of fear of criminal victimization
They wanna be us ’; PCSO performances, uniforms, and struggles for acceptance
Patrol officers and public reassurance
Applying Reassurance Policing
Police station meaning, closure and (in)visibility
Reassurance or reason for concern
Attitude towards immigrants and security
Crime as an environmental stressor
Awareness of community-oriented policing and neighborhood perceptions in five small to midsize cities
Perceptions of Police Practice, Cynicism of Police Performance, and Persistent Neighborhood Violence
The psychology of justice buildings
Explaining the relationship between neighborhood disorder and crime fear
Communicating security? Policing urban spaces and control signals
The Accuracy of Public Beliefs about Crime Further Evidence
Indirect Effects of Police Searches on Community Attitudes to the Police
From Community to Communicative Policing
Fear of crime and the willingness to report crime to police
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space
The Reflexivity and Facticity of Knowledge
Punitivismo y rasgos sociopolíticos
Intimidation, reassurance, and invisibility
Perceived risk of crime
| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2025 (48) |
| Highly cited | No |