Policing: An International Journal: Volume 28 Issue 4

The attitudes of girls toward the police: differences by race

Yolander G. Hurst, M. Joan McDermott, Deborah L. Thomas

Recent research suggests that there is not widespread support for the police among juveniles. Unfortunately, this research typically involves either examining the attitudes of…

Comparing police drug‐allegations with enumerations of drug users/sellers

W. Rees Davis, Bruce D. Johnson, Doris Randolph, Hilary James Liberty, John Eterno

Comparisons between New York Police Department (NYPD) drug‐allegation data and data from users' and sellers' self‐reports about crack, powder cocaine and heroin provided useful…

A confluence of credentialing, career experience, self‐efficacy, emotional intelligence, and motivation on the career commitment of young police in Ibadan, Nigeria

A. Oyesoji Aremu

Despite much research on police organization generally, little or no research exists on career commitment of young police in Nigeria. This study therefore, aims to investigate the…

An exploratory study of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board mediation program

Elizabeth C. Bartels, Eli B. Silverman

This study seeks to provide an exploratory analysis of the level of satisfaction of citizens and police officers who participated in police complaint mediation. The New York City…

Political culture, hegemony, and inequality before the law: law enforcement in Pakistan

Fida Mohammad, Paul Conway

The paper seeks to document attitudes and patterns of behavior in Pakistan's criminal justice system over the past 30 years.

The importance of a new philosophy to the post modern policing environment

Mark Clark

To provide a concept for a different policing organizational model, founded upon democratic policing principles and a victim‐centered philosophy, which may be more useful for a…

Policing in New Zealand:: A response to Winfree and Taylor's “Rural, small town, and metropolitan police in New Zealand”

Robert Goddard, Sabina Jaeger

This paper seeks to critique the Winfree and Taylor report on rural, small town, and metropolitan police in New Zealand.

“Strangers” in a not‐so‐strange land: a response to Goddard and Jaeger

Terrance J. Taylor, L. Thomas Winfree

Aims to responds to Goddard and Jaeger (Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management (PIJPSM), Vol. 28 No. 4) who offered a thorough critique of an article…

Effects of community policing upon fear of crime: Understanding the causal linkage

Sunghoon Roh, Willard M. Oliver

To identify intervening factors between perceptions of community policing and reduction of crime fear among citizen, which can provide a better understanding of the causal linkage…

Ethical attitudes and prosocial behaviour in the Nigeria police: Moderator effects of perceived organizational support and public recognition

D.O. Adebayo

Concerned with the pervasive unfriendly relationship between the Nigeria police and the public, and the need to improve upon this relationship, the present study was designed to…

Informers: Policing, Policy, Practice

Shamir Ratansi