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DIFFERENTIAL INTEGRATION AND JOB RETENTION AMONG EXOFFENDERS
Author(s) -
KNOX GEORGE W.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1981.tb01379.x
Subject(s) - disadvantage , visibility , criminology , differential (mechanical device) , order (exchange) , psychology , political science , public relations , social psychology , sociology , law , business , engineering , geography , finance , aerospace engineering , meteorology
Recent studies of the police have tended to stress the small role played by the police in the discovery and detection of offenses, and correspondingly, the dependence of the police on the public. The article focuses on the difficulties faced by the police where offenses occur in private or, at least in low‐visibility areas, and suggests six strategies that the police use in order to overcome this initial disadvantage, strategies which in many cases may be sources of controversy .