Policing: An International Journal: Volume 41 Issue 4

Police officers’ attitudes toward citizen advisory councils

Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe, Brandon Tregle

The purpose of this paper is to explore the antecedents of sheriff deputies’ perceived legitimacy of their agency’s citizen advisory council (CAC).

Perspectives of directors of civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies

Richard A. Rosenthal

The purpose of this paper is to involve interviews with civilian oversight of law enforcement (COLE) directors from throughout the USA with the purpose of obtaining their…

The importance of external stakeholders for police body-worn camera diffusion

Natalie Todak, Janne E. Gaub, Michael D. White

The diffusion of innovations paradigm suggests that stakeholders’ acceptance of a police innovation shapes how it spreads and impacts the larger criminal justice system. A lack of…

Organizational correlates of police deviance: A statewide analysis of misconduct in Arizona, 2000-2011

Jessica Huff, Michael D. White, Scott H. Decker

Many examinations of police misconduct involve case study methodologies applied to a single agency, or a handful of agencies. Consequently, there is little evidence regarding the…

Understanding police officer resistance to body-worn cameras

Jessica Huff, Charles M. Katz, Vincent J. Webb

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been adopted in police agencies across the USA in efforts to increase police transparency and accountability. This widespread implementation has…

Examining police use of force and citizen complaints

William Terrill, Jason Robert Ingram, Logan J. Somers, Eugene A. Paoline III

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between police use of force and citizen complaints alleging improper use of force.

Measuring the effect of body-worn cameras on complaints in Latin America: The case of traffic police in Uruguay

Renée J. Mitchell, Barak Ariel, Maria Emilia Firpo, Ricardo Fraiman, Federico del Castillo, Jordan M. Hyatt, Cristobal Weinborn, Hagit Brants Sabo

More than a half a dozen published studies have observed the effect of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on complaints against the police. Nearly all, with varying degrees of…