Degree Name

MA (Master of Arts)

Program

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Date of Award

5-2013

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

John Whitehead

Committee Members

Dennis Hamm, Nicole Prior

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze student attitudes toward various law enforcement figures and to obtain a better understanding of public relations, police effectiveness, and media influences in Northeastern Tennessee. This literature review provided a preliminary analysis of related works to advance the accuracy in conducting and examining future studies. The fields that deserve the most analysis are the underlying dimensions associated with public attitudes about police effectiveness, the media’s impact on public attitudes toward police, and the individual, external, and contextual variables that influence public attitudes toward police.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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