Young people arguing and thinking about the police: qualitative data concerning the categorization of the police in a police youth contact program

TY - JOUR

T1 - Young people arguing and thinking about the police

T2 - qualitative data concerning the categorization of the police in a police youth contact program

AU - Hopkins, Nick

PY - 1994

Y1 - 1994

N2 - Programs of intergroup contact frequently fail with the positive evaluation of the individual contact-partner being separated from the representation of the category as a whole. The paper reports qualitative data gathered from 81 pupils taking part in 28 groups discussions concerning the police officers that they meet in a school-based police-youth ''contact'' program. These data address allow an exploration of the nature of the process of categorization. The paper considers the options for creating more positive police-youth relations.

AB - Programs of intergroup contact frequently fail with the positive evaluation of the individual contact-partner being separated from the representation of the category as a whole. The paper reports qualitative data gathered from 81 pupils taking part in 28 groups discussions concerning the police officers that they meet in a school-based police-youth ''contact'' program. These data address allow an exploration of the nature of the process of categorization. The paper considers the options for creating more positive police-youth relations.

U2 - 10.1177/001872679404701106

DO - 10.1177/001872679404701106

M3 - Article

SN - 0018-7267

VL - 47

SP - 1409

EP - 1432

JO - Human Relations

JF - Human Relations

IS - 11

ER -