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Young People Arguing and Thinking About the Police; Qualitative Data Concerning the Categorization of the Police in a Police-Youth Contact Program

Psychology Department, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN Scotland.

Programs of intergroup contact frequently fail with the positive evaluation of the individual contact-partner being separated from the representation of the category as a whole. The paper reports qualitative data gathered from 81 pupils taking part in 28 group discussions concerning the police officers that they meet in a school-based police-youth "contact" program. These data address allow an exploration of the nature of the process of categorization. The paper considers the options for creating more positive police-youth relations.

Key Words: youth • police • intergroup contact • categorization

Human Relations, Vol. 47, No. 11, 1409-1432 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679404701106


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