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Pre-deployment police officer perceptions of body-worn cameras in Brazil Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Márcio Júlio da Silva Mattos
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have gained prominence as relevant instruments in policing activities globally. Despite their increasing prevalence, limited analyses exist in Brazil concerning the use of ...
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Too risky yet not risky enough: the intersecting characteristics, vulnerabilities, harm indicators and guardianship issues associated with seriously harmed missing children Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Nicola Fox, Caroline Miles, Réka Solymosi, Eon Kim, Riza Batista-Navarro
The number of missing child reports exceed police investigative capacity, yet some incidents are linked with harm, making effective risk assessment essential for safeguarding. Police data likely un...
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Policing domestic abuse: the onus on first responders Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Pamela Davies, Charlotte Frederica Barlow
The police first responder has a central role in the multi-agency response to domestic abuse in most jurisdictions and is uniquely placed to solicit information from the victim-survivor about the e...
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‘No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson
Citizen recordings of police-public encounters are increasingly surfacing on social media, especially those in which individuals intentionally create confrontational situations to provoke a desired...
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Fuelling contempt for police: explaining why procedural injustice and police ineffectiveness damage Muslims’ trust in police Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mohammed M. Ali, Kristina Murphy
Research shows that discriminatory policing can erode public trust in police. Yet, little research has examined the role that contempt can play in explaining this relationship. Focusing on Muslims ...
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Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Simon Egbert, Elena Esposito
The growing digitisation in our society also affects policing, which tends to make use of increasingly refined algorithmic tools based on abstract technologies. But the abstraction of technology, w...
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Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Usman A. Ojedokun, Oluwatobi A. Bolujoko
Despite the abundance of studies on the public perception of the Nigeria Police Force and the policing operations of officials of the law enforcement agency, there is a paucity of empirical researc...
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‘When you own the time, it’s seamless, but when you don’t, it’s horrific’: critical, public order and major incident decision-making in policing Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Laura Huey, Judith P. Andersen, Lorna Ferguson
On 24 May 2022, a gunman entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and fatally shot 19 victims. During the incident, local police were present at the site but did not enter the building to conf...
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A Devilish Kind of Courage: anarchists, aliens, and the Siege of Sidney Street Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Tom Andrews
An examination of the Siege of Sidney Street, and the associated Houndsditch police murders and ‘Tottenham Outrage’ is not new. The author of this new work, Andrew Whitehead, takes the reader beyon...
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The challenges of community policing in maintaining community security: the case of Harar City, Ethiopia Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Alexander Haymanot Abrha, Gutema Imana Keno, Tompson Makahamadze, Reta Duguma Keneni
The adoption of community policing was expected to bring a paradigm shift in preventing crime and disorder. However, regardless of the practice of community policing as a strategy to maintain publi...
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Policing universities: exploring the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by private campus security officers Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Francesca Menichelli, Karen Bullock, Jon Garland, Jonathan Allen
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are widely used across the public and private sectors, including in law enforcement, education, and transport. An extensive body of work exists on the use of BWCs by the pu...
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Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess? Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Mary Aspinall, Carmen Gill, Myrna Dawson, Marie-Marthe Cousineau
Coercive control is an ongoing pattern of abuse that is intended to isolate, humiliate, degrade, and micro-regulate the everyday life of a victim; often found amongst intimate partner violence (IPV...
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The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Gareth Stubbs, Stephen Tong
Current police recruitment research is often focused on disproportionate outcomes based upon identity-based categories such as race, ethnicity, or gender. National government statistics and politic...
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Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sunny Dhillon
Published in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Naomi Maxwell, Amanda Kramer
Building on the growing literature examining the multifaceted and complex issues surrounding police interactions with Autistic individuals, this paper examines police officers’ training, experience...
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Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Hayley Wight, Jerry H. Ratcliffe
Police officers are stationed on the frontlines of open-air drug markets and regularly intervene in issues resulting from public drug consumption and overdoses. Police departments are increasingly ...
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The importance of context: re-examining the ‘deployments’ of SWAT teams in Canada Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Zachary Lair, Bryce Jenkins, Tori Semple, Craig Bennell
Based on an analysis of data released through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, Canadian researchers have suggested that Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are no longer exclusively depl...
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Correction Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-31
Published in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Took my money, called me a guy, and made me sleep in jail overnight’: police procedural failings when interacting with trans folx Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Susana Avalos, April Carrillo
Poor interactions between police and trans folx have been well documented in academic literature and non-profit reports. However, most of these focus on the most egregious of offenses, when police ...
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The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Chris Giacomantonio
Civilian-led, non-police crisis response services – which attend mental health crises that previously had received uniformed police response in many jurisdictions – have multiplied substantially al...
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Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Petter Gottschalk
This article presents research regarding impression management following a white-collar investigation and prosecution scandal by the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic...
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Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 S.J. Cooper-Knock, Julie Berg, Tessa Diphoorn
The rise of private security across the globe has sparked concerns that a central public good is being corporatized, and that policing will no longer be guided by the interests of ‘the public'. In ...
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The everyday political economy of private security Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Adam White, Tessa Diphoorn
In this article we map out a new research agenda for studying private security. We do so by bringing together a series of theoretical, methodological, and geographical ‘turns’ in this area of resea...
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Why the police should be trained by Black people Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Keith Silika
Published in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2024)
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Police station meaning, closure and (in)visibility Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Andrew Millie, Liam Ralph, Michael Rowe, Matthew Jones
This article considers the visual symbolism of policing as reflected by the presence or absence of police stations. The focus is England where recent years have witnessed a prolonged period of poli...
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Protection or predation? Examining COVID-19 policing and the nuances of police corruption in Nigeria Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Aliu Oladimeji Shodunke
The bulk of scholarship on police intervention in enforcing COVID-19 pandemic-imposed restrictions focuses on police misconduct, securitisation, human rights, police preparedness, and legitimacy, b...
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Police and protest in the digital age – a post-Soviet comparison of citizen-police relations Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Nadja Douglas
Technological change has brought a new dimension to the interaction between civic protest and policing in post-Soviet societies. Social media has had a revolutionary impact on protests during the l...
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‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Cheryl Brown, Roberta Julian, Loene M. Howes
Police investigators increasingly make use of forensic science in the investigation of crime. While there is considerable research on case outcomes following the use of forensic identification evid...
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Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Julia A. Yesberg, Zöe Hobson, Krisztián Pósch, Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, Arabella Kyprianides, Reka Solymosi, Paul Dawson, Nicole Ramshaw, Emily Gilbert
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, police services around the world were granted unprecedented new powers to enforce social distancing restrictions. In this paper, we present data from a rolling...
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Can dialogue help police officers and young Black adults understand each other? Key findings from a restorative process Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Ian D. Marder, Katharina Kurz
Relationships between the police and minority ethnic communities are often characterised by tension, mistrust and a lack of understanding. It seems unlikely that the solutions lie in traditional ap...
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Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Samuel Ricardo Neves Moreira, Mariana Sebastião Machado, Inês Maria Ermida Sousa Guedes, Carla Sofia de Freitas Lino Pinto Cardoso
Security guards operate largely in places attended by youth in contemporary urban areas, which is conducive to different interactions between both. However, prior research has mainly focused on you...
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Strategies for resilience: results from a German pilot project to prevent far-right radicalisation within the police Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Daniel Koehler, Julia Filipps
Preventing and countering potential far-right radicalisation within police forces is a major concern in many countries. Specific interventions such as anti-racism or intercultural competence traini...
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LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Helen H. Yu, David Lee
Workplace inclusion occurs when employees perceive a workplace climate that values all employees and treats them fairly with dignity and respect. Yet, social identity theory suggests that this incl...
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Fairness, relationships and perceptions of police legitimacy in the context of Integrated Offender Management Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Frederick Cram
Integrated Offender Management (IOM) involves the police in England and Wales working closely with other criminal justice agencies to reduce the criminal activities of prolific offenders. The work ...
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From criminalisation to harm reduction? The forms and functions of police drug diversion in England and Wales Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Matthew Bacon
While drugs policing often involves enforcement interventions that seek to tackle drug offences and drug-related crime through criminal sanctions, it is becoming increasingly apparent that diversio...
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The ‘regulatory grey zone’: bylaw enforcement’s governing of homelessness and space Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Natasha Martino, C. B. Sanders, E. Dej
Over the past two decades, homelessness has become more visible, and with it are increased demands for law enforcement to minimise the visibility of people experiencing homelessness, and manage, or...
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Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Liam Michaud, Emily van der Meulen, Adrian Guta
Ongoing calls for police reform across North America alongside the growing momentum for the removal of criminal sanctions for personal possession of drugs have placed policing agencies in an ambiva...
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The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Erica Kane
Police activity on social media has emerged as a significant and expanding area of research. However, the existing body of research has predominantly adopted qualitative methods or focused on small...
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Do patron bans reduce crime? An examination of assault offences in Western Australia, before and after the introduction of police-imposed barring notices Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Clare Farmer, Peter Miller, Nicholas Taylor
This paper explores whether the introduction of police-imposed barring notices in Western Australia (WA) is associated with changes to the number, type and location of recorded assaults. Police-imp...
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What’s race got to do with it? Factors influencing urban officers’ off-duty participation in Black Lives Matter protesting Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Joshua R. Ruffin
The purpose of this study is to explore police officers’ beliefs regarding the value and validity of the underlying causes of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and to explore the factors that influ...
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Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Leticia Couto, Nicola O’Leary, Iain Brennan
Policing is the institution responsible for protecting victims of domestic abuse and the institution to which victimisation is formally reported. The police workforce, therefore, are routinely expo...
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Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Martijn Wessels
Law enforcement agencies increasingly adopt algorithms for their policing practices, leading to new accountability challenges. However, academic literature tends to regard algorithmic applications ...
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The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Emma Elfversson, Thao-Nguyen Ha, Kristine Höglund
The police occupy a central role in the functioning of the state by being tasked with upholding security, law and order. Across the African continent, the public has little trust in the police, but...
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Partnership policing and the dynamics of administrative growth Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anders Stenström
The current article reports findings from a research project on partnership policing in Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate how partnership policing strategies translate into social action. Considera...
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Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Jerôme Lam, Eline Schoonderwoerd, Nicolien Kop
This article examines the use of citizen participation by detectives in urgent missing person cases. Citizens can make a valuable contribution to finding a missing person, but this kind of assistan...
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Violent encounters with private security guards in Sweden: mapping the juncture between public and private policing Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Leandro Schclarek Mulinari
The aim with this article is to expand the understanding of current forms of professional arrangements that regulate coercive policing practices at the street level. The empirical material consists...
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The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Rianne Dekker
Published in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Vol. 33, No. 9-10, 2023)
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Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Paul Mutsaers
Published in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Vol. 33, No. 8, 2023)
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Police station design and intrusive police encounters: untangling variations in emotions and behaviourally-relevant perceptions across racial groups Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Victor J. St. John, Andrea M. Headley, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Cultivating positive human interactions is at the core of many strategies used to strengthen the relationship between police and community members, with the use of criminal justice architecture bei...
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An exploration of police discretion in the identification of child victims of county lines drug trafficking Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Serena Espeute, Caroline Lanskey
In recent years, children’s involvement in County Lines drug trafficking (CL) has been of increasing concern to national government, the police and safeguarding agencies. However, few studies have ...
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In the shadows of protection: Brazilian police in private security Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Susana Durão, Erika Robb Larkins, Paola Argentin
The police play a pivotal role in Brazil’s private security industry, even though they are prevented by law from participating in the business. In this article, we argue that the configuration of t...
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The fourth power. A mapping of police oversight agencies in Europe and Quebec Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Simon Varaine, Sebastian Roché
Independent police oversight bodies are advocated by human rights organisations to be the most credible and effective solution to address the misbehaviors and systemic malfunction. They have emerge...
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Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Ulrika Haake, Ola Lindberg, Oscar Rantatalo
ABSTRACT The number of civilian crime investigators (CIs) has been increasing among the police, a trend that is called civilianisation. However, conflicts have arisen from perceptions that civilian CIs undermine professional police efforts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the intersection of doing gender and professional identity in narratives on inclusion and/or exclusion in CIs’ professional
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‘Not everybody can do this job’: a qualitative inquiry into emotional labour from RCMP detachment services assistants Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Mark Jones, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Mark Norman
Abstract Many police organisations employ and rely on public servants to complete specialised tasks with their organisations. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) regularly hires public servants known as Detachment Services Assistants (DSAs) to take on various support roles. As part of DSAs’ many clerical and administrative responsibilities, these workers must often perform emotional labour across
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‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Bjorn Barland
ABSTRACT Norway is one of the few European countries in which the police, in the course of their normal duties, are unarmed. Based on a risk assessment, Norwegian police were permanently armed from 25th November 2014 and 3rd February 2016. This was the longest period during which the police in Norway had been routinely armed, and an evaluation of their experience was required, the aim being to collect
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Dealing with police stops: how young people with ethnic minority backgrounds narrate their ways of managing over-policing in the Nordic countries Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Elsa Saarikkomäki, Randi Solhjell, David Wästerfors
ABSTRACT Research shows that young people within ethnic minorities are subjected to police control more often than others, which seems to have a damaging effect on their trust in the police as well as on their wider sense of belonging. What is less often researched is how these young people deal with being over-policed. This article explores narratives of over-policing from those targeted by the police
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The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jaeseong Jang, Jisu Jeong
ABSTRACT In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis to examine whether police officers are disciplined more severely than other government officers. We used data on disciplinary actions in cases of bribery, which had been extracted from the casebook on disciplinary appeals reviews (2004–2018) published by the Appeals Commission of the Republic of Korea. The results of the ordinal logistic regression
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Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Hans Myhre Sunde, Don Weenink, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
ABSTRACT We investigate the ‘demeanour hypothesis’, stating that police officers are more likely to arrest and use force against citizens who display a ‘bad attitude’. We observed 78 encounters captured on surveillance cameras in the city of Amsterdam. Video material allowed us to code specific behaviours (‘citizen pointed at officer’) instead of the more ambiguous interpretation of behaviour (‘citizen
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Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Yasmine Ezzeddine, Petra Saskia Bayerl, Helen Gibson
ABSTRACT Police forces are increasing their use of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for security purposes. However, citizens are often aware and cautious about advanced policing capabilities which can impact negatively on the perceived legitimacy of policing efforts and police more generally. This study explores citizens’ subjective perspectives to police use by AI, including tensions between
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Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work Policing and Society (IF 2.705) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz, Alèxia Rué, Olga Jubany
ABSTRACT Victim support entails one of the most intense stress- and trauma-laden interactions faced by law enforcement professionals, and this function or role frequently triggers long-lasting negative effects on officers’ psychological health and wellbeing. As police officers interact daily with victims, but also with other officers, social services, and institutions, the limits between tasks and