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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	28
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	23
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	19
Policing as social control: police officer perspectives on the policing of queer people in Kenya	19
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–1850	19
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police	18
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	18
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations	18
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	17
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England	15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom	15
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?	15
Transforming gun violence through group intervention: the Swedish experience of implementing focused deterrence	15
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	14
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	14
Correction	13
Stories from small museums	13
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application	13
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	12
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination	12
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation	10
Policing the neighbourhood with social media: a comparative study of resident’s digital vigilantism in high-income neighbourhoods	10
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	9
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?	9
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	8

Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	8
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26	8
Comparative Policing	8
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	8
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing	8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	8
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	8
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note	8
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	7
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?	7
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
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	7
Neighbourhood policing	6
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	6
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values	6
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	6
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy	6
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	6
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	6
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	6
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	6
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	5
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	5
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	5
Caseloads, culture, and capacity: rethinking investigative policing	5
‘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, 1896–1939	5
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	5
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	5
Revisiting police legitimacy: exploring determinants beyond performance, procedural justice, public satisfaction, and its practices	5
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	5
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	5
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	5
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era	5
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	5
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	5
The inevitable fallibility of policing	4
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	4
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures	4
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	4
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe	4
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	4
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	4
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	4
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington	4
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	4

Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	4
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work	4
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales	4
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	4
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision	4
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	4
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	4