Policing: An International Journal: Volume 22 Issue 4

Acceptance of community policing among police officers and police administrators

Scott Lewis, Helen Rosenberg, Robert T. Sigler

Community policing has evolved from a set of programs to a conceptual framework describing one way that police services can be effectively delivered. As this approach has emerged…

Community policing and the New Zealand Police: Correlates of attitudes toward the work world in a community‐oriented national police organization

L. Thomas Winfree, Greg Newbold

Police in New Zealand have a well established community‐policing tradition. The current research is based on a survey of 440 officers, or roughly 6 per cent of the New Zealand…

Community‐policing: utilizing the knowledge of organizational personnel

John Riley

Questions the approaches used for evaluating the success of community‐policing in the USA. Finds that reliance on crime and arrest statistics is not adequate. One of the new…

Locally oriented crime prevention and the “partnership approach”: Politics, practices and prospects

Peter Goris, Reece Walters

Why have multi‐agency or “partnership” approaches to crime prevention and community safety been reported internationally with unfavorable results? Can groups and individuals from…

A political economy of community policing

David E. Barlow, Melissa Hickman Barlow

Places recent trends in policing in the USA into historical context, emphasizing the critical importance of political, economic, and social forces on the formation and development…

Race, expectations and evaluations of police performance: An empirical assessment

Meghan Stroshine Chandek

The purpose of the current study is two‐fold. First, using data obtained from a sample of crime victims (n = 122), this study empirically assesses the effect that police officer…

Can mental training help to improve shooting accuracy?

Roger T. Couture, Mohan Singh, Wayne Lee, Paul Chahal, Leonard Wankel, Margaret Oseen, Gary Wheeler

The study investigated the effects of two mental training strategies separately and combined on subjects’ shooting performance following an endurance march. Further, the study…