Policing: An International Journal: Volume 37 Issue 3

Police students’ social background, attitudes and career plans

Silje Bringsrud Fekjær

The purpose of this paper is to compare the social background of Norwegian and Swedish police students. Are there differences in the students’ social background, and if so, are…

Evaluating Crisis Intervention Teams: possible impediments and recommendations

Kristie R. Blevins, Vivian Lord, Beth Bjerregaard

Extant literature resoundingly praises Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs for the multitude of benefits they provide for law enforcement agencies and individuals with mental…

The integration of crime analysis into police patrol work : Results from a national survey of law enforcement agencies

Rachel Boba Santos, Bruce Taylor

The purpose of this paper is to examine national survey data of police agencies in the USA to explore the current state of crime analysis integration to patrol crime reduction…

The police service quality in rural Taiwan: A comparative analysis of perceptions and satisfaction between police staff and citizens

Chien Min Chen, Hong Tau Lee, Sheu Hua Chen, Tsung Hsien Tsai

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceptions and satisfaction between police officers and citizens on Kinmen Island (of Taiwan), using an analytical framework that…

Police officers’ perceptions of the challenges involved in Internet Child Exploitation investigation

Martine B. Powell, Peter Cassematis, Mairi S. Benson, Stephen Smallbone, Richard Wortley

– The purpose of this paper is to explore police officers’ perceptions of the challenges and work stressors of working in Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) investigation.

Understanding police use of force: Rethinking the link between conceptualization and measurement

Charles Frank Klahm IV, James Frank, John Liederbach

The study of police use of force remains a primary concern of policing scholars; however, over the course of the last several decades, the focus has shifted from deadly and…

Police members perception of their leaders’ leadership style and its implications

Amr Swid

The purpose of this paper is to examine transformational and transactional leader behavior influence on the leader/follower dyad with respect to organizational commitment (OC) and…

Social bonds, traditional models and juvenile attitudes toward the police in China

Hongwei Zhang, Jihong Zhao, Ling Ren, Ruohui Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of juvenile attitudes toward the police (JATP) in Chinese social settings. More specifically, this study borrows from the…

Research on policing in East Asia: a review of SSCI policing specialty journals

Bitna Kim, Arizona Wan-Chun Lin, Eric Lambert

Little information on dissemination of publications on policing issues in East Asia in which one-fifth of the world's population lives is available. The research questions for the…

The legacy of LEMAS: Effects on police scholarship of a federally administered, multi-wave establishment survey

Matthew C. Matusiak, Bradley A. Campbell, William R. King

Since 1987, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has periodically collected data from police agencies in the USA and disseminated these data as the Law Enforcement Management…

Factors affecting health of the police officials: mediating role of job stress

Akansha Tyagi, Rajib Lochan Dhar

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence of stress among police officers and the impact of it on their health.

Fatigue and burnout in police officers: the mediating role of emotions

Beata Aleksandra Basinska, Izabela Wiciak, Anna Maria Dåderman

The policing profession is associated with psychosocial hazard. Fatigue and burnout often affect police officers, and may impair the functioning of the organization and public…

Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect: Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

Mark R. McCoy

Policing on the web

J.W. Carter II

Editorial statement

Wesley G. Jennings and Lorie Fridell

Police officers’ theory of crime