OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: do officer gender and work experience matter?	33
Voluntary resignations from the police service: the impact of organisational and occupational stressors on organisational commitment	30
London, you have a problem with women: trust towards the police in England	26
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims	22
The dynamic nature of police legitimacy on social media	19
Policing legitimacy: social media, scandal and sexual citizenship	17
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: examining empirical relationship using data from Africa	15
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	15
Policing in a relational state: the case of sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea	15
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	14
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	12
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	12
Police department websites and digital language accessibility: a platform for achieving effective communication between limited English proficient communities and the police	11
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations	11
Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing	11
Vulnerability assessment across the frontline of law enforcement and public health: a systematic review	11
Why the police should be trained by Black people	11
The everyday political economy of private security	11
Why study policing comparatively?	11
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes	10
Advancing our understanding of immigrants’ trust in police: the role of ethnicity, immigrant generational status and measurement	10
Does prior misconduct predict drug use by police?	10
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector	9
Procedural justice, perceived injustice, legal cynicism and police performance: understanding the decision to report victimisation to the police in Caribbean countries	9
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom	8

Broken windows and order-maintenance policing in gentrifying Washington, DC	8
The foundations of defiance: examining the psychological underpinnings of ethnic minority defiance toward police	7
Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation	7
Do patron bans act as a deterrent to future anti-social offending? An analysis of banning and offending data from Victoria, Australia	7
Public relations and public service: police departments on Facebook	7
Engaging non-policing partners to prevent or respond to crime	7
Policing in an era of sousveillance: a randomised controlled trial examining the influence of video footage on perceptions of legitimacy	7
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	7
Police discretion, pragmatism and crime ‘deconstruction’: police doorstep crime investigations in England and Wales	7
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	6
Lying about sexual assault: a qualitative study of detective perspectives on false reporting	6
‘Six of one’: conflict vs control in the policing of intimate partner violence	6
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises	6
An exploration of police discretion in the identification of child victims of county lines drug trafficking	6
Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America	6
Policing futures: transforming the evidence-based policing paradigm through interdisciplinarity and epistemological anarchism	6
From the street corner to call centre: changes in the characteristics of mental health-related calls for service received by police	6
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?	5
‘When something doesn’t fit the story’: human suspicion and discretion in frontline border checks in times of datafication and technologisation	5
Dare to share: information and intelligence sharing within the UK’s anti-money laundering regime	5
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	5
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	5
The role of the Interview Manager (IM) in UK policing: perceptions and experiences of the IM when deployed in high stakes crime investigations	5
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests	5
Policing perpetrator suicide threats in family violence cases: competing priorities and contemporary challenges	5
Announcement	5
Adaptive policing for a climate crisis	5
Crime registration and distress calls during COVID-19: two sides of the coin	5
Turning it on and off: a behavioural and situational comparison of non-fatal violence perpetrated by on- versus off-duty police officers	5
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	5
Violent encounters with private security guards in Sweden: mapping the juncture between public and private policing	5
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	4
‘They call us for everything’: cynicism, rural policing and youth justice	4
‘Setting benchmarks and breaking chains’: public opinions of female police officers	4
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, 202	4
Perception of the police amongst migrant teenagers from Muslim majority countries in Western European host countries	4
Theorising the police support volunteer experience in an English constabulary: A role identity perspective	4
Shaping the subculture of human source intelligence within criminal units? Testing Intelligence Analysis Groups in the French Gendarmerie	4
Can dialogue help police officers and young Black adults understand each other? Key findings from a restorative process	4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	4
Statement of Removal	4
‘Football fans are not thugs’: communication and the future of fan engagement in the policing of Scottish football	4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	4
Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters	3
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and COVID-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions	3
Protection or predation? Examining COVID-19 policing and the nuances of police corruption in Nigeria	3
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance	3
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	3
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	3

The challenges of community policing in maintaining community security: the case of Harar City, Ethiopia	3
‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations	3
Police station meaning, closure and (in)visibility	3
The inevitable fallibility of policing	3
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination	3
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	3
Enacting criminal futures: data practices and crime prevention	3
Correction	2
Only as a last resort: perceptions of police among gender, sexual and relationally diverse (GSRD) BDSM/kink participants	2
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work	2
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	2
Preventing crises in the midst of a global pandemic: responsiveness, participation and equity in policing and public health partnerships during COVID-19	2
Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing	2
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK	2
Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services	2
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing	2
Communicating and categorising ‘kidnap’ incidents in UK police emergency calls: a conversation analytic study	2
Correction	2
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	2
The mediating role of societal context in translating policy learning into policy change: the case of Iranian police	2
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	2
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	2
From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system	2
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe	2
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington	2
Comparative Policing	2
Policing the lockdown: accounts of police officers’ aggression and extortion of frontline health workers in Nigeria	2
The politics of police governance: Scottish police reform, localism and epistocracy	2
Fairness, relationships and perceptions of police legitimacy in the context of integrated offender management	2
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom	2
Policing Nigerian elections: violence, institutional weaknesses and remedial trajectories	2
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	2
Regional differences in police officer misperceptions: a quasi-experimental evaluation of sexual assault investigations training in Kentucky	2
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	2
Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges	2
‘Real men’ doing dirty work: implications for change	2
The merits and risks of body-worn camera footage in domestic and family violence incidents and legal proceedings: a study of police perceptions and experiences	2
Performing politics at the Israeli security fair	2
Police recruits’ perceptions of the utility of viewing body-worn camera footage following use-of-force incidents	2
‘Not everybody can do this job’: a qualitative inquiry into emotional labour from RCMP detachment services assistants	1
Doing the right thing? value conflicts and community policing	1
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	1
Performance mechanisms meet professional autonomy: performance management and professional discretion within police investigation departments	1
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 officers	1
Police-related deaths in the United States	1
Pre-deployment police officer perceptions of body-worn cameras in Brazil	1
The importance of context: re-examining the ‘deployments’ of SWAT teams in Canada	1
The importance of multi-agency collaborations during human trafficking criminal investigations	1
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	1
Values? Camera? Action! An ethnography of an AI camera system used by the Netherlands Police	1
‘There’s always got to be a villain’: the police as ‘dirty’ key workers and the effects on occupational prestige	1
Too right-wing for police integrity? General socio-political attitudes connect work experiences to police integrity	1
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	1
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales	1
First they came for the Young Communists: police facilitation and control at COP26, Glasgow	1
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers	1
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	1
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)	1
‘Took my money, called me a guy, and made me sleep in jail overnight’: police procedural failings when interacting with trans folx	1
Police equilibrium: a glocal assessment of the demand and supply of police	1
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	1
Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees	1
‘It's tough shit, basically, that you're all gonna get it': UK virus testing and police officer anxieties of contracting COVID-19	1
Police officer knowledge of and attitudes to opioid overdose and naloxone administration: an evaluation of police training in Scotland	1
Move-on powers and practices of social exclusion: an examination of governance	1
Policing by social skills: the importance of empathy and appropriate emotional expressions in the recruitment, selection and education of Danish police officers	1
Algorithmic policing: an exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force	1
Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: an analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data	1
A study of police personnel wellbeing in England and Wales whilst working during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work	1
How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany	1
The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya	1
Policing victims of partner violence during COVID-19: a qualitative content study on Australian grey literature	1
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	1
Policing domestic abuse: the onus on first responders	1
Mediated public perceptions of police encampment clearances in Canada and France: a cross-national study	1
Changes and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’	1
Effects of political patronage upon police practices and police reforms during democratisation in Thailand in the period of 1992–2006	1
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases	1