Abstract
ABSTRACT The vast majority of research literature concerning the street-level behavior of police has focused almost exclusively on the work of officers employed by large, municipal police agencies. Given this tendency for researchers to focus on “big city” police, the work of county-level policing, primarily done through the office of the county sheriff, has often been overlooked as a subject of study. This gap in the literature is especially salient because of the distinctive political and organizational features of the office of county sheriff. Using data collected through the systematic observation of deputy sheriffs and a comparison group of small-town and rural local municipal officers located within the same Ohio county, the present study provides data concerning the work routines and citizen interactions of these officers. Comparisons concerning the work of deputy sheriffs, the small-town and rural local officers, as well as their more-often studied urban counterparts are discussed.
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