Social Bond Theory

Reaction Paper: Race, Social Bonds and Juvenile Attitudes Toward Police:
How Perceptions of Police Come About
In this paper I will argue the typology of theories used and whether the evidence is strong, adequate or inadequate. The authors of my article is trying to focus on the perceptions of adolescents about police. They manage to display a macro perspective within the article; the macro perspective allows the outside structures to shape an individual’s views and/ or opinions. It is apparent that the type of thinking the authors had throughout the article was consensual rather than conflictual. With both, the macro perspective and consensual thinking distinctly within the study, results in the typology theory of systems analysis. Moreover, …show more content…
First, the author focusing on the importance of the consensual approach. But most importantly, the author’s macro perspective. The theoretical orientation of the article attempts to integrate race and social bond theory to explain perceptions of juveniles about police, explicitly stated in the abstract. The authors manage to deploy a macro perspective; the macro perspective allows the outside structures to shape an individual’s views and/ or opinions. It was also evident that the type of thinking the author had throughout the article was consensual rather than conflictual. With both, consensual and the macro perspective within the article, results in it being in the interest of a systems analysis. The author doesn’t make any policy recommendations. But recommends how the society can improve the perceptions of juveniles to lower the negativity toward police. Numerous evidence and references are provided throughout the study and references for justification purposes. The author has an effective position on the theory but in order to make the argument stronger and improve, action research and observations should also have been