Policing: An International Journal: Volume 41 Issue 2

Racial disparities in police use-of-force: a state-of-the-art review

Meghan E. Hollis, Wesley G. Jennings

The purpose of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively review the extant literature on racial disparities in police use of force.

Beyond the final report: A research note on the Assessing Police Use of Force Policy and Outcomes project

William Terrill, Eugene A. Paoline III, Jason Robert Ingram

The purpose of this paper is to provide a snapshot of key findings from research published from the Assessing Police Use of Force Policy and Outcomes study, a project funded by…

Individual and situational influences on injurious assaults against the police

Kelle Barrick, Kevin J. Strom, Nicholas Richardson

Violence against the police represents an ongoing and serious problem in the USA. In 2014, over 48,000 law enforcement officers assaulted while on duty. Although over one in four…

How police officers perform in encounters with the public: Measuring what matters at the individual level

Bryan Vila, Stephen James, Lois James

The purpose of this paper is to develop and describe the implementation of a novel method for creating interval-level metrics for objectively assessing police officer behaviors…

The consequences of restricting police arrest authority: less deterrence and more crime

Scott M. Mourtgos, Richard A. Wise, Thomas Petros

Past research indicates that increasing police arrests deters crime. However, little research exists on how restricting police arrests affects crime. The purpose of this paper is…

US SWAT operator experience, personality, cognitive-emotion regulation and decision-making style

Andrew T. Young, Chris Hennington, Dane Eggleston

The purpose of this paper is to examine SWAT operator deployment experience, personality, cognitive-emotion regulation, and decision making to see if there were correlations with…

Management-level officers’ experiences with the Ferguson effect

Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors associated with management-level officers’ sensitivity to various manifestations of the “Ferguson effect.”

The impacts of neighborhood context on residents’ satisfaction with police services in metropolitan Taipei: A multilevel approach

Yung-Lien Lai, Ruohui Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to add to the literature on Taiwanese policing in three regards: employing multiple measures of satisfaction with police services; including analysis…

Enhancing camera surveillance using computer vision: a research note

Haroon Idrees, Mubarak Shah, Ray Surette

The growth of police operated surveillance cameras has out-paced the ability of humans to monitor them effectively. Computer vision is a possible solution. An ongoing research…