Policing & Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Policing & Society is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse24
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police23
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police20
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams19
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations17
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England17
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing16
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?15
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–185015
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom14
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application13
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility13
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs13
Stories from small museums12
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?12
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination10
Correction10
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues10
Comparative Policing9
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation9
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
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden8
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany8
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care8
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act8
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?7
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note7
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP267
Social capital transformation and social control: what can we learn from the changing style in communication between religious communities and the police during COVID-197
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis7
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing6
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis6
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market6
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)6
Austerity, path dependency and the (re)configuration of policing6
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers6
Neighbourhood policing5
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK5
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces5
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews5
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators5
Rocking the Boat5
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy5
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism4
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea4
‘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, 1896–19394
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes4
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales4
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values4
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis4
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales4
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations4
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain4
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy4
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level4
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases3
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective3
The inevitable fallibility of policing3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision3
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism3
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era3
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales3
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe3
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints3
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures3
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work3
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model3
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 officers3
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden3
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures3
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity3
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