Seeing Blue: A Police-Centered Explanation of Protest Policing

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2006-06-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.11.2.U1WJ8W41N301627U

J. Earl, S. Soule

引用次数: 167

Abstract

Existing explanations of repression and the policing of protest focus on the interests of political elites, with research indicating that a chief predictor of state repression is the level of threat protesters pose to elite interests. However, prior research has only paid sporadic attention to how the institutional and organizational characteristics of local law enforcement agencies shape the character of protest policing. This article addresses this significant theoretical gap by developing a police-centered, or "blue," approach to protest policing. Using data on the policing of public protest events in New York State between 1968 and 1973, this article finds support for the blue approach. Specifically, the situational threats posed by protesters to those agents who actually perform repression-local police-are critical predictors of police presence and action. Results also show some residual support for the role of elite threats in structuring repression.

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看到蓝色:以警察为中心的抗议警务解释

现有的关于镇压和镇压抗议的解释集中在政治精英的利益上，研究表明，国家镇压的一个主要预测因素是抗议者对精英利益构成的威胁程度。然而，先前的研究只是零星地关注地方执法机构的制度和组织特征如何塑造抗议警务的特征。本文通过发展一种以警察为中心或“蓝色”的抗议警务方法，解决了这一重大的理论差距。本文利用1968年至1973年间纽约州公共抗议事件的警务数据，找到了支持蓝色方法的证据。具体来说，抗议者对那些实际执行镇压的代理人(当地警察)构成的情境威胁是警察存在和行动的关键预测因素。结果还显示了精英威胁在镇压结构中的作用的一些残余支持。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.