Policing: An International Journal: Volume 43 Issue 6

An environmental approach to police misconduct: exploring situational prevention possibilities to understanding and preventing police misconduct

Kelly Amy Hine, Louise E. Porter, Janet Ransley

This paper explores the applicability of environmental theories to understanding patterns of police misconduct. In turn, it aims to offer a method for identifying prevention…

Predicting trust in police: the impact of instrumental and expressive concerns in street-identified Black-American men and women

Darryl L. Chambers, Yasser A. Payne, Ivan Sun

While the past few decades have witnessed a substantial number of studies on public attitudes toward the police, a relatively thin line of inquiry has focused exclusively on low…

An examination of organizational and community effects on police response time

Nicholas Andrew Salimbene, Yan Zhang

The primary objective of the current study is to examine the impact that the size of a police department and workload on a department have on response time. Secondarily, the…

Neighborhood context, police legitimacy and willingness to help the police in Shanghai, China

Siyu Liu, Yuning Wu, Ivan Sun, Feng Li

Following social disorganization theory and the process-based model of policing, the present study aims to examine how characteristics of communities are meaningful in shaping…

Dimensions of police culture – a quantitative analysis

Daniela Gutschmidt, Antonio Vera

Many authors describe police culture as a relevant determinant of officers' health, policing behavior and reaction to change. Investigation of such relationships requires an…

Public perception of police behaviors in the disaster COVID-19 – The case of Serbia

Bojan Janković, Vladimir Miroljub Cvetković

The aim of the study is to determine the perception of general public on the Serbian police behaviors in combating COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the perception of the citizens how…

Police officer self-legitimacy: the role of organizational fit

David R. White, Michael J. Kyle, Joseph Schafer

Police officer perceptions of their own legitimacy can be important in shaping aspects of their performance and other organizational outcomes. The current study uses…