Policing: An International Journal: Volume 45 Issue 6

Reappreciating the varieties of police behavior: a national examination of contemporary police mission statements

Lisa M. Dario, Gabriel T. Cesar, Vaughn J. Crichlow

The current and ongoing police legitimacy crises demand a renewed analysis of the police mission in American law enforcement. This research aims to examine the mission statements…

Canine/handler relationships: a descriptive mixed-methods analysis of handlers' well-being and stress

Sarah Abraham, Frances P. Abderhalden, Matthew C. Matusiak

This study aims to examine the relationships between handlers and (canine) K9. Understanding the influence of well-being and stress (general, occupational and home) is a first…

A study on the mediating effects of anxiety and happiness for workplace loneliness and behavioral outcomes of Korean police officers

Yang Woon Chung, Xue Tong Dong, Jeong Kwon Yun

Workplace loneliness has become a concern in diverse work settings. However, workplace loneliness research is in its early stages of development and not much is known about the…

A reexamination of the code of silence and disciplinary fairness in South Korea over 11 years

Wook Kang, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Jeyong Jung

This paper aims to provide an in-depth exploration of the code of silence in Korean policing and its relationship to perceptions of disciplinary fairness.

Police resource distribution in China: spatial decision making based on PGIS-MCDA method

Ning Zhang, Xu Haoran, Feng Jiang, Dawei Wang, Peng Chen, Qing Zhang

Based on the theoretical viewpoints of criminal geography and environmental criminology, this research uses spatial multi-criteria decision-making methods. In the process of…

Police internal affairs units: results from a national survey

Christopher Harris, Sean Perry

This study aims to obtain information regarding the personnel, policies and practices of Internal Affairs (IA) units in large, municipal, US police departments.

Does racial discrimination matter: explaining perceived police bias across four racial/ethnic groups

Yue Yuan, Yuning Wu, Chris Melde

This study uses a diverse sample of residents living in Northern California to study factors that are associated with public perceptions of police bias. The authors also…

Examining explanations for differences in exhaustion and depersonalization between Black and White officers

Christopher E. Powell, Amie M. Schuck

The purpose of this study is to examine whether differences in occupational burnout between Black and White officers can be explained by differences in areas of worklife and…

Violence against on-duty police officers: the role of criminal motivation and premeditation in offenders' choice of weapons

Xu Haoran, Antoinette Verhage, Christophe Vandeviver

This research uses rational choice theory to analyze the effects of motivation, premeditation and offender characteristics on offenders' weapons during decision-making processes…

Exploring the factors related to citizens' willingness to report police misconduct

Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Yang Liu, Valentina Pavlović Vinogradac, Irena Cajner Mraović

This study examines the effects of diffuse support for the police, specific support for the police, experience with the police, and demographic characteristics on citizens' own…

Human trafficking awareness and reporting: insights from Tennessee police websites and Twitter

Ben Stickle, Teresa C. Kulig, Sadie Creel, Kayla N. Meyer, Bethany Maynard, Garrett C. Jeanes

Human trafficking is challenging to address; one facet of response has been to engage with the public to increase awareness of trafficking and create connections that facilitate…

Exploring the value of mentorship for women police officers

Logan Lavender, Natalie Todak

The paper explores the prevalence of mentorship opportunities for women police officers, the nature of mentorship relationships, and their perceived effect on women’s career…

Public cooperation with police in Detroit: a testing of three perspectives

Hailey Khatchatourian, Grace MacFarland, Mindy Thai, Danika Hickling, Brad Smith, Yuning Wu

While public support for and cooperation with the police has been deemed vital for police effectiveness, what shapes such support and cooperation has not been fully examined. The…

Exploring police sexual misconduct: an examination of a decade of incidents in a metropolitan agency

J. Mitchell Miller, J. Andrew Hansen, Kristina M. Lopez

Police misconduct is a grave matter undermining public trust in law enforcement and police professionalism. While research has specified major forms and causal theories of police…