文档介绍：本科毕业设计(论文)
外文翻译
原文:
I’m OK – you’re not OK
Drivers’ attitudes toward police officers enforcing traffic laws
Police officers have a major role in the ess of traffic law enforcement (Shinar and McKnight, 1986). Yet, as Radelet and Carter (1994) argue, “by far, the biggest conflict between the police and the public occurs in the enforcement of traffic laws”(p. 207). The present paper explores the attitudes of drivers toward police officers’ enforcing traffic laws as well as the relationship of these and general attitudes toward police authority.
The deterring effect of an encounter with police officers
Encounters between police officers and citizens in traffic situations provide a major source of citizens’ hostility toward the police (Wilson, 1964). Kirkham and Wollan (1980) argue that for most citizens, traffic incidents represent their only encounter with the police. Regardless of how skilled in interpersonal relations an officer may be when apprehending a driver, there are inherently negative features in such encounters. The reasons for the public’s resentment of traffic law enforcement plex. Kirkham and Wollan (1980) suggest several explanations for the unpleasant emotions drivers experience if apprehended. First, the police officer is a salient symbol of governmental authority. Thus, an apprehension represents an instance of interference with the driver’s freedom of