6 - Theory
Reversing the Cycles
from Part III - Interventions for Promoting Cooperation
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This chapter theorizes how interventions employed by police and community safety advocates might promote cooperation. The evaluation focuses on two interventions that plausibly reverse cycles of silence: facilitating cooperator anonymity to reduce the risk involved in information sharing and creating awareness of support for cooperation to strengthen the perceived norms favoring information sharing. Given that these interventions do not address distrust in the police, which places a ceiling on cooperation support, the evaluation also includes the trust-based intervention of exposing citizens to police officers of the same race or ethnicity. The chapter concludes with enumerating principles that should be considered when evaluating the appropriateness of implementing interventions to promote cooperation.
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- Silencing CitizensHow Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice, pp. 177 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024