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Exploring police attitudes on victims’ delayed reporting and victim blame in technology-facilitated IPV
Background settingCyberstalking, now conceptualised as one of the forms of technology-facilitated intimate partner violence (TFIPV), has seen an...
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Technology and Police Legitimacy
Through a consideration of the use of mobile devices by the police and the public, this chapter explores some of the potential issues raised by the...
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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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Governing Police Stops Across Europe
This book takes a critical and comparative approach to the analysis of the governance of police stops across Europe. It draws on an EU COST Action...
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The Spatial Dimension of Police Legitimacy: An Exploration of Two Pacific Island States
The police legitimacy literature is grounded predominantly in studies from the Global North. In these contexts, technology and economic resources...
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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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How Concentrated Are Police on Crime? a Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Concentration of Police Presence and Crime
Research QuestionWhat were the spatiotemporal patterns of police patrol in a major European city across the pre-COVID year of 2019, how did these...
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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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The Role and Contribution of the Police Planner in Improving Police Service Delivery
This chapter critically examines the role of a police planner and planning units. Data were collected from a 32-question electronic survey that was...
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Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers
The integration of evidence-based policy into criminal justice reform – and into police reform specifically – is a daunting but necessary endeavor....
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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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Police Body-Worn Cameras and Structuration: A Silver-Plated Bullet and the Status Quo
Using the structuration paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to make sense of the implementation body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police...
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Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago: Differences Across Citizen Race and Incident Type
ObjectivesThis study explores the level to which Gunshot Detection Technology (GDT) leads to increased arrests and stops as compared to shots fired...
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Violence and the Police
The tasks and types of work performed by the police are legion; theoretical approaches to explaining police behavior have often either stumbled in...
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The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras
Since the mid-1990s, Latin American countries have witnessed an increase in crime and violence, making it one of the most dangerous regions in the...
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Race and Militarized Police Violence in Brazil
Current official data indicate that the police are the main perpetrators of shoot deaths and injuries of Blacks in Brazil. The Brazilian Security...
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Initiatives to Improve Police–Community Collaboration and Trust
Police organizations in many Western democracies had been experiencing reductions in serious and violent crime rates through 2020 and the unfortunate...
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The Police Power of Finance, Technology, Housing, and Education
Policing is not primarily what law enforcement does, or what occurs through the operations of the criminal justice system. More fundamentally, it is...
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Warriors and Vigilantes as Police Officers: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Body Cameras in Rio de Janeiro
Research QuestionCan requiring police to wear body-worn cameras (BWC) on duty restrain police misconduct in contexts such as a favela in Rio de...
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Police and Protestors: Motives and Responses
This chapter examines the law and human rights relating to public protests based on international instruments and discussion around coverage of the...