Policing: An International Journal: Volume 27 Issue 4

Higher education and policing: where are we now?

Roy Roberg, Scott Bonn

There has been a long‐standing debate over whether a college education for police officers is desirable or even necessary. Today, with the ever‐expanding complexity of the police…

Citizen expectations of police traffic stop behavior

Richard R. Johnson

The most frequent type of citizen complaint filed against police officers involves how the officer uses interpersonal communication. The most common context of police‐citizen…

Human rights in the new training curriculum of the Police Service of Northern Ireland

Steven T. Engel, George W. Burruss

Northern Ireland is attempting to move from a divided society model of policing to a democratic policing model. One of the key components of the reform agenda is the issue of…

Sexual harassment and police discipline: Who's policing the police?

Sue Carter Collins

The occurrence of sexual harassment in policing is a national problem. Indicative of the significance of this problem are the increasing numbers of sexual harassment complaints…

Structural and organizational predictors of homicide by police

Brad W. Smith

The present study examined homicides by police officers, testing threat, community violence, and organizational hypotheses. Using UCR, SHR, Census, and LEMAS data the study…

An integrated approach to crowd psychology and public order policing

Stephen Reicher, Clifford Stott, Patrick Cronin, Otto Adang

This paper uses recent developments in crowd psychology as the basis for developing new guidelines for public order policing. Argues that the classical view of all crowd members…

The role of police visibility in fear of crime in Finland

Satu Salmi, Martti Grönroos, Esko Keskinen

This article presents a model for police visibility and people's fear of crime. Survey data were collected from 3,245 adults and 977 teenagers in two typical Finnish…

Czech police officers: An exploratory study of police attitudes in an emerging democracy

Matthew S. Crow, Tara O'Connor Shelley, Laura E. Bedard, Marc Gertz

Following the velvet revolution of 1989 and the adoption of a democratic form of government, Czech policing has experienced a plethora of changes resulting in a new police force…