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Anthony V. Bouza and the Founding of Evidence-Based Policing
Anthony V. Bouza (1928–2023) was a founding father of evidence-based policing. The first police chief to authorize a randomized controlled trial...
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Reconceptualizing How Policing Works
This chapter seeks to redefine policing by resituating law enforcement as subordinate to the police power manifest in other areas of society besides...
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Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework
Despite mass protests, demands to defund the police, and a range of institutional reforms, historic patterns of abuse and violence in US policing...
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What Is Evidence-Based Policing?
This chapter explores and discusses the definition of Evidence-based Policing and its strengths and weaknesses as a strategic method for increasing...
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Off-the-Cuff Law-Making: Policing Pandemic Dispossession in Spain
This article presents a discussion concerning the role of police rationale(s) in Spain within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, where...
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Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism
This article explores the case study of crime and policing in the urban New York City neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Taking a critical...
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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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Evidence-Based Policing Is Here to Stay: Innovative Research, Meaningful Practice, and Global Reach
Research QuestionIn the context of important advances as well as global reach, what more is needed for evidence-based policing to bridge the divide...
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Understanding Cultural Policing and Segregation of LGBTQ+ Communities in Poland
This chapter comprises a partisan, critical criminological contribution to this volume, consisting of an analysis of discriminatory policing...
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Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain
The terms ‘knife crime’ and ‘knife culture’ were first established in British crime discourse at the turn of 21 st century and represent a particular...
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Policing “Landscapes” for the Rule of Law and Public Protection: the State of Evidence on Organisational Policies, Structures, and Human Resources
Research QuestionWhat evidence is, or is not, available on organisational policies, structures, and practices in national policing institutional...
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“Test-As-You-Go” for Hot Spots Policing: Continuous Impact Assessment with Repeat Crossover Designs
Hot spots policing is rapidly changing its evidence-base. Instead of producing more results of one-off, conventional experiments that provide an...
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A Friendly Police Supervision Model and Youth Violence Reduction in Northern Saskatchewan: Implications for Indigenous Policing in Canada
Indigenous policing has become a prominent concept which refers to an institutional transformation in the Canadian policing perspective based on the...
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Issues Affecting Policing 1850–1920
This chapter will discuss a range of developments that affected policing 1850–1920. It will evaluate how issues such as pay and conditions of work...
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The Myth of ‘Routinely Unarmed’ Policing
Many extol the virtue of ‘routinely unarmed’ policing. Indeed, the ability to practise without reliance on a demonstrable police power epitomises the...
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Introduction: Policing and State Crime: A View from the South
This introductory chapter will explain how contributors to Policing and State Crime in the Americas build on the burgeoning traditions of southern...
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Policing Student Protests in Turkey: From the Promise of ‘Citizen in Uniform’ to Dictating ‘létat c’est moi’
To fulfill the requirements of European Union membership, Turkey promised to improve policing policies and practices in the first decade of the...
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Developments in Evidence-Based Policing in the United Kingdom
This chapter examines Evidence-based Policing in the United Kingdom. Despite the police being defined as not being open to change, the acceptance and...
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The Contribution of the “Super Evidence Cop”; Key Role of Police Leaders in Advancing Evidence-Based Policing
There is considerable evidence that evidence-based policing (EBP) can aid the police in becoming more effective in responding to crime and improving...
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Perilous Policing: An Analysis of the Resident Evil Series
The current analysis takes seriously representations of the police throughout the Resident Evil series, a hallmark horror game franchise. Drawing...
