Policing: An International Journal: Volume 26 Issue 4

Suing cops and corrections officers: Officer attitudes and experiences about civil liability

Daniel E. Hall, Lois A. Ventura, Yung H. Lee, Eric Lambert

Adding to the existing research on criminal justice officers’ attitudes towards and experiences with civil liability, this study compared the attitudes and experiences of law…

Women militia officers in Ukraine: Exploring their experiences in a post‐Soviet policing organisation

Adrian Beck, Vadym Barko, Alina Tatarenko

This article offers an insight into the experiences of female officers working within the post‐Soviet Ukrainian militia, based on data collected from nearly 500 serving officers…

Community characteristics and policing styles in suburban agencies

L. Edward Wells, David N. Falcone, Cara Rabe‐Hemp

Recent policing reforms have strongly emphasized the role of community context in determining the form and content of effective policing, along with the traditional influence of…

Community policing is an epicycle

Aditi Gowri

Community policing has been described as a successful “new paradigm” and even a developing “normal science” of policing. From a detailed application of Kuhn's definitions of…

Variability in the organizational structure of contemporary campus law enforcement agencies: A national‐level analysis

Eugene A. Paoline, John J. Sloan

Descriptive analyses of campus police agencies reveal that agencies’ tactical and operational features are similar to those found in municipal agencies. The problem is that none…

Police expectations and the control of English soccer fans at “Euro 2000”

Clifford Stott

This study is concerned with understanding the nature of police stereotypes and expectations and their potential role in shaping the intergroup dynamics of “hooliganism” involving…

The impact of police social capital on officer performance of community policing

Amanda L. Robinson

Social capital is used as a theoretical framework to reveal the importance of relationships between officers and their supervisors for performing community policing. It is…

Quality‐of‐life policing: Do offenders get the message?

Andrew Golub, Bruce D. Johnson, Angela Taylor, John Eterno

In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department expanded its focus on reducing behaviors that detract from the overall quality of life (QOL) in the city. Many have credited this…