Policing: An International Journal: Volume 27 Issue 1

Attitudinal and personality predictors of diversionary behavior by police

Ann L. Parker, Philip B. Mohr, Carlene Wilson

Following recent changes to the juvenile justice system in South Australia, police officers are expected to adopt a more proactive role in intervening with young offenders. The…

A cross‐national comparison of citizen perceptions of the police in New York City and St Petersburg, Russia

Robert C. Davis, Christopher W. Ortiz, Yakov Gilinskiy, Irina Ylesseva, Vladimir Briller

Long a tradition in the USA, surveys of citizen perceptions of the police are beginning to gain prominence in emerging democracies. Recently, citizen surveys using common items…

The effectiveness of external assessments in facilitating organizational change in law enforcement

Andrew L. Giacomazzi, David C. Brody

Police departments across the USA have been challenged in their efforts toward broad implementation of community policing. This paper examines the level of change at five law…

America’s conservation police: agencies in transition

David Falcone

Examines the history of US conservation police agencies and notes how changes in social values and recreational activities have increased the demands for the protection of…

Police officer performance appraisal systems: How good are they?

Larry M. Coutts, Frank W. Schneider

Constables, sergeants, and staff sergeants (n=393) representing 15 municipal Canadian police departments completed a survey in which they reported about their organizations’…

Official status and the swiftness of criminal arrest: A Chinese case of the impact of social position on criminal justice

Lening Zhang, Jianhong Liu

Building upon the conflict paradigm, the present study examines the impact of official status on the swiftness of criminal arrest in China and derives two major hypotheses from…

Community policing in Hong Kong: Development, performance and constraints

Carlos Wing‐Hung Lo, Albert Chun‐Yin Cheuk

This paper is an in‐depth analysis of community policing in Hong Kong. It includes an outline of the evolution of community policing in Hong Kong, identifies the structural…

The politicization of police in South Korea: a critical review

Byongook Moon

The Korean police have been greatly affected by the political developments of the twentieth century. Political neutrality and structural autonomy of the police from the government…