Overview
- First sco** review aggregating and summarizing empirical research on police decision-making globally until 2022
- Features 11 databases searched by at least two researchers for relevant literature until the beginning of 2022
- Allows for reflections on future research in police decision-making and practical recommendations
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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This book gives an overview of the empirical research regarding police discretionary decision-making worldwide through 2022 by means of a sco** review. In total, eleven databases were searched and 15,193 publications have been assessed in terms of relevance for this topic, with 1,563 of these being assessed more thoroughly. The shortlist consists of 526 publications. It answers the following questions:
- What is the amount of available research concerning police decision-making and what are its characteristics?
- How and where is police decision-making studied?
- Which crime phenomena are studied?
- Which types of decisions are studied?
- Which factors impact police discretion?
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Methodology
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Discussion and Conclusions
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yinthe graduated in 2016 as Master Criminology at Ghent University. She then performed a systematic review concerning police accountability for a short-term project at that same university. From 2017 until January 2018, she worked at the Flemish Government on policy-related research regarding ethnicity. In February, she started her PhD on Belgian police officers' (ethical) decision-making processes, again at Ghent University. It concerns a mixed-methods research project combining surveys, interviews, systematic social observations, focus groups and a sco** review. The latter is reported in this book.
Yinthe’s research interests among others include police decision-making, police organizations, victimization, ethics and methodological issues. She is interested in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Worldwide Views on Police Discretion
Book Subtitle: A Sco** Review Regarding Police Decision-Making
Authors: Yinthe Feys
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22281-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22280-1Published: 02 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22281-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-8533
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Research Methods in Criminology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Criminological Theory