Policing: An International Journal: Volume 29 Issue 4

Officer perceptions of police responses to persons with a mental illness

William Wells, Joseph A. Schafer

The purpose of this paper is to explore police officer perceptions of their contacts with the mentally ill and examine outcomes of an innovative police training program designed…

A clumsy dance: the political economy of American police and policing

J. Robert Daleiden

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate historical theories of political economy as means better to clarify and classify contemporary state police and private policing…

Lawsuits involving the police: a content analysis of newspaper accounts

Carol A. Archbold, Daniel Lytle, Corneshia Weatherall, Ann Romero, Catherine Baumann

The purpose of this paper is to study lawsuits involving the police using newspaper accounts from three large cities in the USA.

Structural elaboration and institutional isomorphism: the case of crime analysis units

Matthew J. Giblin

Studies of police organizations typically involve examining predictors consistent with structural contingency theory while comparatively fewer have examined the applicability of…

When police go shopping

Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky

This article aims to alert readers to the procurement and acquisition activities of police agencies, to the risks that these entail, and to mechanisms for their effective…

Examining the career plateau among police officers

Ronald J. Burke, Aslaug Mikkelsen

This study aims to examine the career plateau by comparing police officers having 15 or more years of service who had been promoted with police officers having 15 or more years of…

The influence of organizational socialization on police officers' acceptance of community policing

Byongook Moon

The study aims to examine the effect of organizational socialization into police culture on officers' attitudes toward community policing in South Korea.

Geographical information systems (GIS) and policing in South Africa: a review

G.D. Breetzke

This purpose of this paper is to explore the developments which have precipitated the use and integration of geographical information systems (GIS) within the South African Police…

Organizational commitment and perceived organizational support in the NSW police

Paul Currie, Brian Dollery

An embryonic empirical literature on Australian policing has established that commitment levels of police officers are comparatively low. This paper seeks to add to this…

Following the leader: front‐line narratives on police leadership

Michael Rowe

The purpose of this article is to consider junior officers' attitudes towards those in senior positions, and the implications that this has for current debates on improving police…

Third Party Policing

Rachel Boba

The Center for Problem-oriented Policing

J.W. Carter

Differential Suspicion: Theory Specification and Gender Effects in the Traffic Stop Context

Daniel Lytle, Troy Payne

On the Limits of Social Control: Structural Deterrence and the Policing of “Suppressible” Crimes

Daniel Lytle, Troy Payne

Editorial

Lawrence F. Travis

Assessing the Effect of Race Bias in Post-traffic Stop Outcomes Using Propensity Scores

Daniel Lytle, Troy Payne