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Rural–Urban Dynamics of Police Corruption: Views of Ghanaian Police Officers
Police corruption referring to police officers’ use or misuse of authority for private or organisational gain is a major obstacle to effective...
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Predicting Police Integrity: An Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to the Police Integrity Instrument
Research using the 11-scenario police integrity instrument designed by Klockars et al. document a range of factors influencing the willingness to...
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Beyond police apologies: Concrete plans of action increase the public’s willingness to cooperate with police
ObjectiveThis experimental study examined if people are more willing to cooperate with police after police apologize and provide a plan of action to...
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Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment
ObjectivesTest the effects of police compliance with the restrictions on their authority embedded in Social Contract Theory (SCT) on police...
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The Impact of Measurement Error in Regression Models Using Police Recorded Crime Rates
ObjectivesAssess the extent to which measurement error in police recorded crime rates impact the estimates of regression models exploring the causes...
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Public perceptions of courts and cooperation with police
The police depend upon public cooperation to effectively control crime. Understanding factors that impact people’s willingness to cooperate with the...
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The value of criminal history and police intelligence in vetting and selection of police
Despite decades of research considering police misconduct, there is still little consensus on officer characteristics associated with misconduct, and...
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The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units
The proliferation and deployment of police tactical units is an emerging issue in the broader sociopolitical discussion surrounding police reform in...
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Public Confidence Attitude Formation Toward the Police in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan: Similarities and Differences
While public attitudes toward the police have been extensively researched in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan over the past three decades, no...
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Police Training and Police Violence in Scandinavia
Compared to countries such as the United States, in Scandinavian countries there tend to be fewer violent confrontations between police officers and...
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Do police stations deter crime?
PurposeThe introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police...
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Predictors of police response time: a sco** review
BackgroundAs rapid response has been a key policing strategy for police departments around the globe, so has police response time been a key...
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Do police videos impact youths’ willingness to cooperate with the police? Results from a national experiment
ObjectiveTest how virtual, vicarious exposure to a procedurally just versus unjust police traffic stop impacts youths’ perceptions of police...
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In Times of Political Crisis, Why People Support the Police: Police Legitimacy in Taiwan
The current research examines the support for the police during a political crisis. Relying on a random sample collected from the Taipei metropolitan...
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Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service
Conventional police databases contain much information on cybercrime, but extracting it remains a practical challenge. This is because these...
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Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?
Research suggests perceptions of neighborhood social dynamics and judgments that the police follow fair procedures are strongly correlated with...
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Exploring the impact of measurement error in police recorded crime rates through sensitivity analysis
It is well known that police recorded crime data is susceptible to substantial measurement error. However, despite its limitations, police data is...
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“In Police We Trust?”—Confidence in the Police Among Adolescents With and Without a Migration Background in Germany
Overall, adolescents exhibit a high level of confidence in the police. Nevertheless, it is problematic when certain social groups show lower levels...
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Police education and democratic policing in Taiwan: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study of the effects of selection and police socialisation on human rights, moral reasoning and prejudice
ObjectivesTo investigate the effects of selection and group socialisation on support of human rights, moral reasoning and prejudice in police...
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Aggressive policing and undermined legitimacy: assessing the impact of police stops at gunpoint on perceptions of police in São Paulo, Brazil
ObjectivesTest the effects of a recent police stop and a recent police stop at gunpoint on changes in attitudes towards the police among residents of...
