Policing: An International Journal: Volume 38 Issue 1

Effective crowd policing: empirical insights on avoiding protest violence

Anne Nassauer

The purpose of this paper is to connect sociology, criminology, and social psychology to identify specific factors that keep protests peaceful, discusses empirical examples of…

Law enforcement executive and principal perspectives on school safety measures: School resource officers and armed school employees

Margaret M. Chrusciel, Scott Wolfe, J. Andrew Hansen, Jeff J Rojek, Robert Kaminski

The purpose of this paper is to assess the perspectives of law enforcement executives and public school principals regarding school resource officers (SROs), armed teachers, and…

Shared and transformational leadership in the police

Doris Masal

Although an increasingly complex work environment requires shared forms of leadership in the police, there is little empirical evidence on how to facilitate shared leadership in…

Factors that affect the arrest decision in domestic violence cases

Kimberly M. Tatum, Rebecca Pence

– The purpose of this paper is to examine domestic violence calls for service data in one Florida county for a two-year period from July 2004 through July 2006.

Producing deception detection expertise

J. Pete Blair, Timothy R. Levine, Bob E. Vasquez

To function effectively, police must separate lies from truth. Police, ideally, would be experts at this task, yet there is debate surrounding whether expertise in detecting…

Exploring citizen satisfaction with police in India: The role of procedural justice, police performance, professionalism, and integrity

Manish Madan, Mahesh K. Nalla

The purpose of this paper is to examine citizens’ perception of police in India, particularly the authors examine the factors influencing citizen satisfaction with the police in…

The development of moral reasoning skills in police recruits

Annelies De Schrijver, Jeroen Maesschalck

Police officers are frequently confronted with moral dilemmas in the course of their job. The authors assume new police officers need guidance, and need to be taught at the police…

Tracking change in Northern Ireland policing: temporal phases and key themes

Joanne Murphy

The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain the change process in Northern Ireland policing through an analysis of temporally bracketed change phases and key change…

The 2011 Stanley Cup Riot: police perspectives and lessons learned

Garth Davies, Stephanie E Dawson

The purpose of this paper is to examine crowd violence in relation to the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot from the perspective of those police officers who were involved in the event, and…

Policing and procedural justice: a state-of-the-art review

Chirstopher Donner, Jon Maskaly, Lorie Fridell, Wesley G. Jennings

The purpose of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively review the literature on procedural justice in policing, in the context of both police-citizen encounters and…

Minority perceptions of the police: a state-of-the-art review

Jennifer H Peck

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review of empirical studies that have examined perceptions and attitudes of the police across various racial and…

Editorial

Wesley G. Jennings, Lorie Fridell