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Unpacking the police patrol shift: observations and complications of “electronically” riding along with police
As frontline responders, patrol officers exist at the core of policing. Little remains known, however, about the specific and nuanced work of...
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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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Empirical Examination of Factors that Influence Official Decisions in Criminal Cases Against Police Officers
In the current paper, we examine departmental and court decision-making in criminal cases against police officers. The study has two objectives: 1)...
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Immigration and Police Perceptions of a “War on Police” in a U.S.–Mexico Border Town
High-profile cases of police use of force against civilians have increased public scrutiny of police. The increased media attention and resulting...
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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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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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Leaders’ Understanding of Evidence-Based Practices: A Survey of Police Chiefs and Probation/Parole Chiefs
Immense pressure is being put on criminal justice agencies to adopt and implement evidence-based practices (EBP). Empirical evidence highlights the...
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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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Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime
Knife crime remains a major concern in England and Wales. Problem-oriented and public health approaches to tackling knife crime have been widely...
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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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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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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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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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Police Work and the Antifascism Police Movement in Brazil
This chapter examines the ways in which members of the Antifascism Police Movement recognize the notion of working police as a political and utopian...
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Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police
Recent debates over policing have centered on the proper role of policing in society. Using the lenses of democratic policing and police legitimacy,...
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Sources of Police Legitimacy in Europe: the Role of Immigrant Status and Ethnic Discrimination
Police legitimacy is crucial in democratic societies because it promotes citizen’s cooperation with the police and compliance with the law....
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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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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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Operationalizing deployment time in police calls for service
Analyses of emergency calls for service data in the United States suggest that around 50% of dispatched police deployment time is spent on...
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Justice and Life Satisfaction Among Indian Police Officers: A Preliminary Study
The concept of organizational justice refers to employee perceptions about whether the employing organization treats workers in a fair and just...