Policing & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Policing & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police29
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse29
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–185026
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams24
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing24
Policing as social control: police officer perspectives on the policing of queer people in Kenya23
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea22
Public health approaches to crime prevention: questions of epistemic authority and the politics of co-production17
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police16
Transforming gun violence through group intervention: the Swedish experience of implementing focused deterrence14
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England13
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations13
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?13
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom12
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs12
Stories from small museums12
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation12
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application12
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility11
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination11
Correction10
Classifying the ‘Top tier’: ethnographic case studies from organised crime policing in London9
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions9
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues9
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care8
Policing the neighbourhood with social media: a comparative study of resident’s digital vigilantism in high-income neighbourhoods8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden8
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act8
Police encounters with people who use drugs during decriminalisation in British Columbia, Canada: a mixed-methods analysis8
‘We can’t be everywhere … but they can be out there’: co-producing road safety through Community Speedwatch8
Comparative Policing8
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?8
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing7
The relationship between warrior and guardian mindsets and support for police reform7
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria7
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing7
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK7
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews7
Neighbourhood policing7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note7
Public perceptions of police use of artificial intelligence to assist in generating police reports: findings from an experimental study7
Why democratic police reform mostly fails and sometimes succeeds: police reform and low state capacity, authoritarianism and neo-patrimonial politics (in the former Soviet Union)7
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims7
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis7
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP267
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces6
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales6
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force6
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago6
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis6
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism6
‘It´s important – but someone else can do it’ police training and officers’ and students’ understanding and perceptions of crime prevention in Sweden6
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan6
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations6
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain6
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales6
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era6
‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–19396
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey5
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce5
Caseloads, culture, and capacity: rethinking investigative policing5
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales5
Gendered policing and trust: transgender experiences and police education reform in Pakistan5
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy5
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives5
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era5
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level5
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea5
Revisiting police legitimacy: exploring determinants beyond performance, procedural justice, public satisfaction, and its practices5
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing4
Implementation fidelity matters: insights from a realist evaluation of police drug diversion schemes in England4
The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh4
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism4
Correction4
The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers4
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage4
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales4
A matter of trust? Policing violence against women and girls4
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity4
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam4
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases4
Police diversity: beyond the blue4
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities4
Correction4
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures4
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure4
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model4
Policing and the media: representations of the police in news, television police drama, documentaries and beyond4
The Portuguese police experience with drug decriminalisation4
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden4
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies4
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures4
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints4
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective4
Law-framed reasoning process: integrating mobile phone data in police investigations in China4
Should police be turning up at all? managing mental health crises in an English Constabulary under the Right Care, Right Person framework3
The digital turn in police image work: determinants of adoption, use and perceived effectiveness of social media communications in forces in England & Wales3
An ethnographic multi-order and notice analysis of the policing practices associated with civil preventive orders and notices3
‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations3
The invention of urgency: the transformation of the police role in society’s response to mental illness, 1900–19703
Accommodating shifts in legal frameworks: police use of pre-charge bail and release under investigation3
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus3
Exploring police occupational subcultures within Latin America through an atypical case3
Turning it on and off: a behavioural and situational comparison of non-fatal violence perpetrated by on- versus off-duty police officers3
Dare to share: information and intelligence sharing within the UK’s anti-money laundering regime3
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests3
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes: challenges and opportunities in policing HBA3
From evasion to retaliation: exploring the motivations behind assaults on police3
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims3
Doing discretion – authority, ambiguity and control in German traffic stops3
Crime-related content on Facebook and Twitter (X): comparing comment sentiment between Australian news and police posts3
Correction3
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations3
Correction3
Restoring public trust in fragile-state policing: the roles of police professionalism, accountability, and citizen satisfaction in Mogadishu, Somalia3
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era3
Churn at the top: understanding predictors of turnover in police leadership in Canada3
Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges3
Post-election riots and the dilemmas of democratic policing: recent experience in the United States and Brazil3
Policing Nigerian elections: violence, institutional weaknesses and remedial trajectories3
A complete turnaround: police and gay men 1950–20103
Rewards, sanctions, and trust in the police: evidence from field and survey experiments in Colombia3
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: do officer gender and work experience matter?3
Getting back to the state: policing the Covid-19 pandemic2
Transitioning over the thin blue line: exploring career change experiences of former police officers in Trinidad and Tobago2
Values? Camera? Action! An ethnography of an AI camera system used by the Netherlands Police2
Identifying risk work tensions in policing and mental health partnerships in England2
Maternity in policing: the supervisor lottery, structural barriers, and insights for organisational reform2
Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody2
Community policing as a translated and co-constituted practice in the Global South: evidence from Bangladesh2
Gender-based harassment in police organisations: exploring its role in impeding inclusivity and reinforcing the gender hierarchy2
United Kingdom-European Union policing and law enforcement cooperation in the post-Brexit era2
Predict and surveil: data, discretion, and the future of policing2
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales2
Police officers as filmmakers: the cinematography of body worn cameras2
Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees2
Introduction2
What service should police provide? Towards a minimum policing standard2
‘No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing2
Fairness, function, and belonging: what shapes police legitimacy in Aotearoa New Zealand?2
Officer retention: a comparative analysis of online company reviews by Australian and English police officers2
Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work2
Algorithmic policing: an exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force2
Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London2
Specialist policing units as a pathway towards procedural justice for domestic abuse victims2
‘It’s an absolute shambles’: police officers’ views on institutional challenges in policing rape and serious sex offences in England and Wales2
Norwegian police officers withholding fire in armed confrontations: a tale of situational awareness2
Speeding and deterrence: A comparative analysis of police officer enforcement and camera-based systems2
Does prior misconduct predict drug use by police?1
A study of police personnel wellbeing in England and Wales whilst working during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation1
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales: Volume V: policing post-war Britain: plus ça change1
Spy plane: inside Baltimore’s surveillance experiment1
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me' : police apprehension in mental health contexts in Australia1
Police ethics1
Attempts to teach ethics to police leaders and managers at the Police College: a lesson from history1
Pre-deployment police officer perceptions of body-worn cameras in Brazil1
Disaster victim identification: UK practitioners’ experiences and wellbeing1
Understanding roadside drug testing (RDT) in a digital age: awareness, deterrence, legitimacy, and technology-driven avoidance among drivers1
Can harm be predicted? On the development and validation of a statistical model for predicting harm in missing person incidents1
Public confidence in the police: using opinion survey data to explore the current ‘moment’ in British policing1
Enabling border policing through socialisation at the playground1
Using Public Spaces Protection Orders to put the brakes on car cruising1
Identity fracture: a social identity theory analysis of police whistleblower narratives in England and Wales1
‘Setting benchmarks and breaking chains’: public opinions of female police officers1
‘To protect and serve their own people’: perceptions of police encounters among racialised male migrants in Iceland1
Policing rape: the way forward1
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises1
Why the police should be trained by Black people1
Contextualising the investigation work in China: the facilitators and barriers in using mobile phone evidence1
Resistance to work against sexual harassment within the police1
Adaptive policing for a climate crisis1
Policing suicide: investigative officers’ views on criminalisation and enforcement of anti-suicide laws1
Organisational justice in online harms management in UK police services: enacting a feminist ethics of care1
Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia1
Mediated public perceptions of police encampment clearances in Canada and France: a cross-national study1
Be(a)ware of the dog: the symbolic-disciplinary functions of drug detection dogs in English music festivals1
Low self-control and the blue wall: exploring police attitudes on breaking the code of silence1
Are the police unique? Gender differences in attrition among Dutch police staff relative to other public subsectors1
The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami , by T. Jeursen, New York, NYU Press, 2021
When deterrence falls short: exploring third party policing and cross-border compliance among young drivers1
The politics of police governance: Scottish police reform, localism and epistocracy1
More than words: English as an additional language in police recruitment and promotion processes1
The regularisation and effectiveness of private security industry management: a perspective from the Caribbean1
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: how the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance1
Policing technology-facilitated abuse1
Police equilibrium: a glocal assessment of the demand and supply of police1
The ‘civilizing effect’ and ‘deterrence spectrum’ revisited: results of a national study of body-worn cameras on fatal police force1
Penal servitude: convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-19481
Reforming police education in Iceland: a comparative analysis of students’ competence valuations before and after the transition to university education1
First they came for the Young Communists: police facilitation and control at COP26, Glasgow1
Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships1
Ageing, policing, and the construction of older adult theft in South Korea: frontline perspectives1
Nocturnal policing: a study of public, private and voluntary policing in the night-time economy1
Policing homosexual acts in the mid-twentieth century: ‘whether or not whipping would have the desired effect is a matter of conjecture’1
Police officers’ perceptions of citizens and support for procedural justice policing: the mediating roles of identity and self-legitimacy1
Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters1
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