Additionally, the success of the police often depends on the help of the community. Community Watch groups, Crime Stoppers, Code Blue, and other such programs all depend on the community acting as the eyes and ears of the police within neighborhoods. Furthermore, if there is community solidarity, it can often begin to police itself. Community programs aimed at reducing the potential for crime, elders who mentor youth, and even peer pressure can play significant roles in deterring criminal behaviors and result from communities that view law enforcement in a positive light.
Tyler and Huo (2002) assert that if Social Control (i.e. deterrence) methods often tend to alienate the very community that law enforcement needs to partner with, and the California Study shows that people who have a favorable view of the police tend to self-regulate and cooperate more, then it makes sense that a process-based model would benefit both law enforcement and the community. If the police and the courts can treat people fairly and respectfully, listen to citizen concerns and provide explanations for the actions being taken, then individuals and society in general will interpret this as procedural justice and cooperate more often (p. 200).
There are still some limitations to a process-based model, however. Tyler and Huo (2002) do not address this in very much detail, but there are certain groups of people that will not respond to …show more content…
Rather, there is very little that would deter people in the aforementioned groups from criminal behaviors if they felt themselves justified in committing them. Instead of focusing on what cannot be controlled, there are several ways the process-based model that Tyler and Huo (2002) discussed can be practically implemented with the goal of influencing the rest of the
Tyler and Huo (2002) assert that if Social Control (i.e. deterrence) methods often tend to alienate the very community that law enforcement needs to partner with, and the California Study shows that people who have a favorable view of the police tend to self-regulate and cooperate more, then it makes sense that a process-based model would benefit both law enforcement and the community. If the police and the courts can treat people fairly and respectfully, listen to citizen concerns and provide explanations for the actions being taken, then individuals and society in general will interpret this as procedural justice and cooperate more often (p. 200).
There are still some limitations to a process-based model, however. Tyler and Huo (2002) do not address this in very much detail, but there are certain groups of people that will not respond to …show more content…
Rather, there is very little that would deter people in the aforementioned groups from criminal behaviors if they felt themselves justified in committing them. Instead of focusing on what cannot be controlled, there are several ways the process-based model that Tyler and Huo (2002) discussed can be practically implemented with the goal of influencing the rest of the