OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policing & Society is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Policing COVID-19 physical distancing measures: managing defiance and fostering compliance among individuals least likely to comply	34
‘It's tough shit, basically, that you're all gonna get it': UK virus testing and police officer anxieties of contracting COVID-19	30
Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing	28
Desistance from criminalisation: police culture and new directions in drugs policing	23
Voluntary resignations from the police service: the impact of organisational and occupational stressors on organisational commitment	22
Changes and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’	19
Policing the lockdown: accounts of police officers’ aggression and extortion of frontline health workers in Nigeria	17
Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model	15
The dynamic nature of police legitimacy on social media	15
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: examining empirical relationship using data from Africa	14
Policing a new domestic abuse crime: effects of force-wide training on arrests for coercive control	14
Maintaining police-citizen relations on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The inevitable fallibility of policing	12
Constructing police legitimacy during protests: frames and consequences for human rights	12
Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services	12
Women-led police stations: reimagining the policing of gender violence in the twenty-first century	11
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales	11
To protect and serve while protecting privileges and serving male interests: hegemonic masculinity and the sense of entitlement within the Icelandic police force	11
Performance mechanisms meet professional autonomy: performance management and professional discretion within police investigation departments	11
Policing in an era of sousveillance: a randomised controlled trial examining the influence of video footage on perceptions of legitimacy	11
Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study	11
Capturing killers: the construction of CCTV evidence during homicide investigations	11
Do patron bans act as a deterrent to future anti-social offending? An analysis of banning and offending data from Victoria, Australia	11
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and COVID-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Body-worn cameras ‘on the move’: exploring the contextual, technical and ethical challenges in policing practice	10

The impact of COVID-19 on UK informant use and management	10
Policies, procedures and risk aversity: police decision-making in domestic violence matters in an Australian jurisdiction	9
Social capital transformation and social control: what can we learn from the changing style in communication between religious communities and the police during COVID-19	9
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK	9
Forecasting the governance of harmful social media communications: findings from the digital wildfire policy Delphi	8
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era	8
Policing by social skills: the importance of empathy and appropriate emotional expressions in the recruitment, selection and education of Danish police officers	8
Policing COVID-19 through procedural informality in Pakistan	7
Over and out: the damaged and conflicting identities of officers voluntarily resigning from the police service	7
‘Football fans are not thugs’: communication and the future of fan engagement in the policing of Scottish football	7
Race and support for police use of force: findings from the UK	7
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	7
Trust in the police and the militarisation of law enforcement in Latin America	7
Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody	7
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases	7
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision	6
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom	6
Developing core national indicators of public attitudes towards the police in Canada	6
Dots versus density: the impact of crime mapping techniques on perception of safety, police performance and neighbourhood quality	6
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector	6
Cross-national research. A new frontier for police studies	6
Policing victims of partner violence during COVID-19: a qualitative content study on Australian grey literature	6
The perverse impact of performance measures on policing: lessons from the rise and fall of out of court disposals	6
Big Data applied to criminal investigations: expectations of professionals of police cooperation in the European Union	5
Community-based policing in COVID-19: a 4-P’s priorities of Vietnam’s police	5
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	5
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes	5
The policing and public health interface: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Austerity, path dependency and the (re)configuration of policing	5
Enacting criminal futures: data practices and crime prevention	5
Protection or predation? Examining COVID-19 policing and the nuances of police corruption in Nigeria	5
Vulnerability assessment across the frontline of law enforcement and public health: a systematic review	5
Policing technology-facilitated abuse	5
Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: an analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data	5
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	5
Lying about sexual assault: a qualitative study of detective perspectives on false reporting	5
‘FREEZE?’ An analysis of police officers accounts of self-enclosing experiences	4
New drugs, new fears: synthetic opioids and adaptations to police practice.	4
Police worker politics in India, Brasil, and beyond	4
Doing the right thing? value conflicts and community policing	4
Procedural justice, perceived injustice, legal cynicism and police performance: understanding the decision to report victimisation to the police in Caribbean countries	4
Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation	4
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?	4
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)	4
Visibly better? Testing the effect of ethnic appearance on citizen perceptions of the police	4
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	4
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on missing person reports	4
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	4
An exploration of police discretion in the identification of child victims of county lines drug trafficking	4