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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	29
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	29
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–1850	26
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	24
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	24
Policing as social control: police officer perspectives on the policing of queer people in Kenya	23
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	22
Public health approaches to crime prevention: questions of epistemic authority and the politics of co-production	17
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police	16
Transforming gun violence through group intervention: the Swedish experience of implementing focused deterrence	14
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England	13
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations	13
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 Kingdom	12
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	12
Stories from small museums	12
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation	12
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application	12
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	11
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination	11
Correction	10
Classifying the ‘Top tier’: ethnographic case studies from organised crime policing in London	9
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
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	9
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	8

Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	8
Police encounters with people who use drugs during decriminalisation in British Columbia, Canada: a mixed-methods analysis	8
‘We can’t be everywhere … but they can be out there’: co-producing road safety through Community Speedwatch	8
Comparative Policing	8
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?	8
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	8
Policing the neighbourhood with social media: a comparative study of resident’s digital vigilantism in high-income neighbourhoods	8
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	7
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing	7
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	7
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	7
Neighbourhood policing	7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note	7
Public perceptions of police use of artificial intelligence to assist in generating police reports: findings from an experimental study	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
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	7
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	7
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26	7
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	7
The relationship between warrior and guardian mindsets and support for police reform	7
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	6
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	6
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	6
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	6
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	6
‘It´s important – but someone else can do it’ police training and officers’ and students’ understanding and perceptions of crime prevention in Sweden	6
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	6
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	6
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	6
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	6
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	6
‘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	6
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	6
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales	5
Gendered policing and trust: transgender experiences and police education reform in Pakistan	5
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	5
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	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
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
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	5
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	5
Caseloads, culture, and capacity: rethinking investigative policing	5
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	4
Implementation fidelity matters: insights from a realist evaluation of police drug diversion schemes in England	4
The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh	4
Correction	4

The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage	4
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	4
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities	4
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures	4
A matter of trust? Policing violence against women and girls	4
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	4
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	4
Police diversity: beyond the blue	4
Correction	4
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure	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
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures	4
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	4
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	4
Policing and the media: representations of the police in news, television police drama, documentaries and beyond	4
The Portuguese police experience with drug decriminalisation	4
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies	4
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints	4
Law-framed reasoning process: integrating mobile phone data in police investigations in China	4
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	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
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	4