-我很好，你不好驾驶员对交警交通执法的态度外文翻译 大学论文.docVIP

本科毕业设计（论文） 外 文 翻 译 原文： I’m OK – you’re not OK Drivers’ attitudes toward police officers enforcing traffic laws Police officers have a major role in the success of traffic law enforcement (Shinar and McKnight, 1986). Yet, as Radelet and Carter (1994) argue, “by far, the biggest conflict between the police and the public occurs in the enforcement of traffic laws” (p. 207). The present paper explores the attitudes of drivers toward police officers’ enforcing traffic laws as well as the relationship of these and general attitudes toward police authority. The deterring effect of an encounter with police officers Encounters between police officers and citizens in traffic situations provide a major source of citizens’ hostility toward the police (Wilson, 1964). Kirkham and Wollan (1980) argue that for most citizens, traffic incidents represent their only encounter with the police. Regardless of how skilled in interpersonal relations an officer may be when apprehending a driver, there are inherently negative features in such encounters. The reasons for the public’s resentment of traffic law enforcement are complex. Kirkham and Wollan (1980) suggest several explanations for the unpleasant emotions drivers experience if apprehended. First, the police officer is a salient symbol of governmental authority. Thus, an apprehension represents an instance of interference with the driver’s freedom of action. Furthermore, apprehension imparts to the driver the status of a child who has been caught in some wrongdoing and is therefore about to be punished. Although drivers admit to having violated a traffic law, there is a often a feeling of having been unjustly singled out for punishment because motorists witness many instances in which violations go undetected (Kirkham and Wollan, 1980). Radelet and Carter (1994) also argue that when a driver is asked to stop and pull over to the side of the road, the driver feels singled out, suspecting that the only reason for the police off