Policing: An International Journal: Volume 46 Issue 2

Investigating police self-legitimacy: individual-level predictors of self-identification and perceived external legitimacy

Madison K. Doyle, Sean Patrick Roche

Using an online survey design and a primary data collection of police officers working in a large city in the southern United States, the current study finds evidence that…

Using natural language processing to measure cognitive load during use-of-force decision-making training

Vivian Ta-Johnson, Joel Suss, Brian Lande

Few studies have tested the efficacy of instruction based on cognitive load theory in police use-of-force (UoF) training due to limitations of existing cognitive load measures…

A simple metric for predicting repeated intimate partner violence harm based on the level of harm of the index offence (… as long as a non-linear statistic is applied)

Kristian Moesgaard Loewenstein, Barak Ariel, Vincent Harinam, Matthew Bland

A recent body of evidence investigated repeated intimate partner violence (IPV) using crime harm indices (the severity of victimisation), instead of crime counts (the number of…

How long should a patron ban be: an examination of police-imposed barring notice records in Western Australia

Clare Farmer, Peter Miller, Nicholas Taylor, Ryan Baldwin

Patron banning is widely used in response to disorderly behaviours in/around licensed venues, but there has been limited analysis of specific policies. This paper explores key…

Cooperation with the police: a path analysis of residents in two Arab American-concentrated cities

Brianna Camero, Karen Cano-Rodriguez, Takudzwa Chawota, Kayon Morgan, Alicen Potts, Monserrat Solorzano-Franco, Charles Klahm IV, Yuning Wu

This study seeks to answer (1) how perceived neighborhood collective efficacy and disorder affect residents' cooperation with the police, both directly and indirectly through…

COVID-19 vaccination in Brazilian public security agents: are human values good predictors?

Claudio V. Torres, Clerismar Aparecido Longo, Francisco Guilherme L. Macedo, Cristiane Faiad

The authors investigated the effect of basic human values in the prediction of COVID-19 vaccination behavior amongst public security agents in Brazil.

Helping the helpers: the role of organizational support and peer influence on police officer receptivity to employee assistance programs

Kenneth M. Quick

This study aims to investigate critical differences between police officer willingness to use and recommend an employee assistance program (EAP) to a peer, including the…

Environmental drivers of delays in reporting crimes

Dennis Wesselbaum

Extensive literature studies the causes of crime and crime reporting behaviour. In contrast, there is hardly any scholarship on delays in reporting a crime and what drives them…

Measuring crime: a new paradigm

Marilyn Ee, Yan Zhang

The purpose of this exploratory study is to expand on a previously developed crime harm index – the California Crime Harm Index (CA-CHI) – by discussing the development of the…

Masking up and the role of the police

Clair White, Jamie A. Snyder, Jennifer Tabler, Adrienne Freng

The COVID-19 pandemic placed many challenges on policing, from limiting officers' ability to interact with citizens to enforcing regulations to prevent the spread of the virus…

Gauging the impact of negative media publicity on career decisions: exploring police recruit motivations during a recruitment crisis

Ashleigh N. Wojslawowicz, Robert J. Doan, Jacqueline T. Fish, James A. Spencer

The purpose of the study was to provide greater understanding of the policing recruitment crisis by exploring if and how recruit decisions to become an officer were influenced by…

Perceived COVID-19 impacts on auxiliary police in China

Yunan Chen, Ivan Sun, Yuning Wu, Ziqiang Han

The purpose of this paper is to assesses whether supervisor justice is linked to COVID-19 negative and positive impacts directly and indirectly through the mechanisms of stress…

The effects of differential timing in the adoption of BWCs on civilian complaints

Erik Alda

The study examined the effects of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on civilian complaints against police using a non-representative national sample of police organizations.