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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	24
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	23
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police	20
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	19
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations	17
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England	17
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	16
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?	15
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–1850	15
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom	14
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application	13
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	13
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	13
Stories from small museums	12
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 discrimination	10
Correction	10
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	10
Comparative Policing	9
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation	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
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing	8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	8
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	8

How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	8
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	8
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	7
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 UK	7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note	7
‘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
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	7
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing	6
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	6
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	6
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 policing	6
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	6
Neighbourhood policing	5
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	5
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	5
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	5
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators	5
Rocking the Boat	5
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy	5
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	4
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	4
‘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	4
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes	4
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	4
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values	4
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	4
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales	4
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	4
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	4
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom	4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance	4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	4
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	4
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases	3
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington	3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	3
The inevitable fallibility of policing	3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants	3

Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision	3
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities	3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	3
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era	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
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage	3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints	3
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures	3
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work	3
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	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
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
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures	3
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	3