OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?	27
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	21
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	19
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	18
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	17
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	16
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom	15
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	14
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application	14
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	13
Correction	13
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	13
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination	13
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	12
Comparative Policing	12
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK	11
From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system	10
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	9
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	9
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	9
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	8
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing	8
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26	7
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	7

Austerity, path dependency and the (re)configuration of policing	7
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	7
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	7
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	7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?	7
Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody	7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	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
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy	7
Women-led police stations: reimagining the policing of gender violence in the twenty-first century	6
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	6
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	6
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	6
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	6
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators	6
Neighbourhood policing	6
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	5
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	5
Rocking the Boat	5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	5
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values	5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	5
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	5
Vulnerability assessment across the frontline of law enforcement and public health: a systematic review	4
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes	4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom	4
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	4
‘They call us for everything’: cynicism, rural policing and youth justice	4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance	4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	4
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	4
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	4
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	3
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	3
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe	3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	3
The inevitable fallibility of policing	3
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases	3

Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	3
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	3
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work	3
‘There’s always got to be a villain’: the police as ‘dirty’ key workers and the effects on occupational prestige	3
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington	3
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	3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision	3