RESPONSES TO THE POLICE UNIFORM - A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF THE CIVILIAN BLAZER IN POLICE WORK

• NCJ Number: 2895
• Author(s): R E WILEY; C D COCHRAN
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 136 pages
• Grant Number(s): NI-70-065-PG-18
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice; US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
• Corporate Author: Stetson University
• Sale Source: National Technical Information Service
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF POLICE OFFICERS AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES OF PERSONS COMING IN CONTACT WITH THE OFFICERS WAS STUDIED.

Abstract

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THE TYPE OF CLOTHING WORN BY POLICE OFFICERS HAS ANY MEASURABLE VARIATIONS ON THE PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF CITIZENS. THE MAJOR FINDING IS THAT IT IS ADVISABLE FOR OFFICERS TO USE A UNIFORM THAT IS DESIGNED FLEXIBLY AND CAN CONVEY THE CIVILIAN IMPRESSION UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE MORE TRADITIONAL POLICETYPE IMPRESSION UNDER OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)