Studies of representations of the police are important because they affect what people think about the police as an … organization, what people expect from day-to-day interactions with police officers, and how police officers themselves work in the … separate studies of the police as an organization from studies of how the police are represented. In this paper, I formulate a …

citizens’ willingness to report crimes to the police, one of the quintessential forms of cooperation with the state apparatus … cooperate with the police is influenced by the nature and perpetrator of the crime but not by material rewards, appeals to civic …

Contemporary police scholars have argued that it is important to study “how representations of the police and policing … are produced and received” (Loader, 1997: 5) and what social meanings are created by them. Police scholars have claimed … that police television series produce media images which frame social relations, and social relations, in turn, frame media …