Policing: An International Journal: Volume 25 Issue 4

“I’m not against it in theory …”: global and specific community policing attitudes

Joseph A. Schafer

Community policing has been the focus of considerable research attention and financial support in recent years. Despite extensive inquiry, there are still many unanswered issues…

Gender and police stress: The convergent and divergent impact of work environment, work‐family conflict, and stress coping mechanisms of female and male police officers

Ni He, Jihong Zhao, Carol A. Archbold

This study explores the impact of work environment, work‐family conflict, and coping mechanisms on physical and psychological stresses of police officers. Using survey data from a…

Community policing: training, definitions and policy implications

Sutham Cheurprakobkit

This study surveyed 198 police officers of a single police department in Texas regarding their attitudes about the practice of community‐oriented policing (COP) and its…

Identifying situational predictors of police shootings using multivariate analysis

Michael D. White

Prior research on the police decision to use deadly force has tended to neglect multivariate relationships, particularly at the situational level. This paper makes use of data…

Fraud investigations: a case study in economic evaluation

Michael McFadden, Sue‐Ellen Mwesigye

Increasingly, public sector organisations, including police, are required to justify public expenditure through a variety of performance reporting regimes. This study explores the…

The Delphi method: a powerful tool for strategic management

Robert Loo

The Delphi method can be a powerful tool to help police organizations forecast the future for the purposes of strategic management, and policy and program development among other…

Drunk driving: probability of detection and its perception

Rebecca Löbmann

The detection of drunk driving is an important task of police organizations. The impact of police work on drunk driving depends largely on drivers’ perceptions of the probability…

Raising the age and education requirements for police officers: Will too many women and minority candidates be excluded?

Lisa Kay Decker, Robert G. Huckabee

Police departments are slowly but steadily moving to increase the educational requirements for sworn officers. Additionally, some departments are beginning to consider raising the…