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Description & Citation--Study No. 3597

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3597
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03597
 
Title:National Survey of Police-Media Relations, 2000
 
Principal Investigator(s):Jarret S. Lovell, Rutgers University. School of Criminal Justice
 
  George L. Kelling, Rutgers University. School of Criminal Justice
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice
 
Grant Number:2000-IJ-CX-0046
 
Bibliographic Citation:Lovell, Jarret S., and George L. Kelling. NATIONAL SURVEY OF POLICE-MEDIA RELATIONS, 2000 [Computer file]. ICPSR03597-v1. Newark, NJ: Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice [producer], 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03597
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study was undertaken to examine the influence police officers have in creating an image of law enforcement through media relations and public information offices/officers (PIO). A survey was mailed nationwide to police departments serving areas with populations exceeding 100,000 residents. The survey items identified the following factors: (1) the presence and nature of a formal departmental media strategy, (2) the prevalence of full-time police PIO, (3) PIO background characteristics, including educational/vocational training in media, journalism, or public relations, (4) specific goals of police media relations offices and PIOs, (5) the various methods by which these goals are achieved, and (6) the perceived quality of police-media interaction, the police image, and the public information office both before and after the adoption of the current media strategy.
 
Subject Term(s):media influence, media use, police departments, police officers, public opinion, public relations
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:none
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2000
 
Date(s) of Collection:2000
 
Unit of Observation:police departments
 
Universe:Municipal police departments serving areas with a population of 100,000 residents or greater.
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:The sampling frame was comprised of police departments listed in the 1999 National Directory of Law Enforcement Administrators. The survey instrument was sent to police departments nationwide serving areas with a population of 100,000 residents or greater.
 
Data Source:Data were collected from self-enumerated mail-in surveys distributed nationally to municipal law enforcement agencies.
 
Response Rates:The response rate was 76 percent.
 
Presence of Common Scales:Several Likert-type scales were used.
 
Extent of Processing:Missing data codes were standardized by the principal investigator and ICPSR. ICPSR checked for undocumented codes, produced a codebook, generated SAS and SPSS setup files, converted the hardcopy documentation to a PDF file, and reformatted the data and documentation.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2003-10-30
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Survey of Police-Media Relations, 2000
 

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