Policing: An International Journal: Volume 23 Issue 3

Philosophy into practice? Community policing units and domestic violence victim participation

Amanda L. Robinson, Meghan Stroshine Chandek

Much research has focused on the police response to domestic violence; however, relatively little research has considered performance differences of various types of police…

Measuring police innovation: issues and measurement

William R. King

This paper investigates conceptual and empirical issues in the study of police organizational innovation. In particular, previous studies of police innovation have rarely created…

Use of the World Wide Web, hyperlinks and managing the news by criminal justice agencies

Stephen G. Dykehouse, Robert T. Sigler

This paper presents the results of two research projects designed to evaluate the extent and nature of the use of the World Wide Web by criminal justice agencies. Discussion…

Suicide by police: a proposed typology of law enforcement officer‐assisted suicide

Robert J. Homant, Daniel B. Kennedy

A typology of suicide by police was created by separating 143 such incidents from a database of 174 police shooting incidents. The 143 incidents were found to consist of three…

A test of Lundman’s organizational product thesis with data on citizen complaints

Liqun Cao, Xiaogang Deng, Shannon Barton

Applying Lundman’s organizational product thesis in explaining citizen complaints against police use of excessive physical force, the current study tests several hypotheses with a…

Police brutality or police torture

Budimir Babovic´

Focuses on the issue of force by the police and points out differences between police brutality and police torture. Discusses the factors which can affect the levels of police…

Problems of nepotism and favouritism in the police organization in Turkey

Kayhan Mutlu

Policing in a democratic, free society is one of the essential arguments in the literature. However, the data collected from the police chiefs (N = 306) show that nepotism and…

Arming a traditionally disarmed police: an examination of police use of CS gas in the UK

Linda Tyler, Lisa King

The introduction of police use of CS gas within the UK has prompted widespread criticism. This article begins with the background to the introduction of CS gas, including the…