Work characteristics and police officers’ performance: Exploring the...
AbstractPurpose - The authors adopted a multilevel analysis to examine the effect of work characteristics on members’ self-efficacy and collective efficacy, and the subsequent effect on police...
View ArticleDallas’ Disruption Unit: Efficacy Of Hot Spots Deployment
AbstractPurpose - Most previous research on hot spot policing measures only continuous and concentrated deployment against particular offenses over a given period of time. The current study examined...
View ArticleJOB CHARACTERISTICS AND WORK-HOME INTERACTION: DOES RACE MODERATE THE...
AbstractPurpose - This study investigated whether race moderates the relationship between job characteristics (job demands and job resources) and negative and positive WHI (work-home interaction) in a...
View ArticlePolice Decision-Making: An Examination of Conflicting Theories
AbstractPurpose - This research attempts to compare two conflicting theoretical frameworks that predict or explain police decision making. Klinger’s (1997) ecological theory proposes that an increased...
View ArticleA framework for assessing impacts of leadership competency on police project...
AbstractPurpose - The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of the project leader’s competencies with job satisfaction, and their impact on project performance. The second...
View ArticleGroup Consciousness, Identity and Perceptions of Unfair Police Treatment...
AbstractPurpose - To explore the relationship between global and specific attitudes of unfair police treatment towards Mexican Americans and how attitudes towards the police vary with sociodemographic...
View ArticleA New Zealand Approach to Prioritising Criminal Groups
AbstractPurpose - The goal of this study was to develop a better method for prioritising organised criminal groups, utilising the existing literature on organised crime and risk...
View ArticleDevelopment and impacts of a new performance management system in Hong Kong...
AbstractPurpose - This paper outlines the development and implementation of the 'values-driven competency-based performance management system (VDCBPMS) and reports the findings of a study that aims to...
View ArticleARE DRUG ARRESTS A VALID MEASURE OF DRUG USE? A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
AbstractPurpose - To determine whether trends in arrests for heroin, amphetamine-type substances (ATS) and cocaine can be used as indicators of trends in the use of these...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of the Emergency Response Week Curriculum
AbstractPurpose - Police recruits need to be prepared the moment they graduate from the police academy for any type of situation. It is during the initial recruit training phase at the police academy...
View ArticlePerceived Experience and Police Officers’ Ability to Detect Deception
AbstractPurpose - For police officers, the ability to distinguish between truthful and deceptive statements in interrogations is an essential one. However, research shows that their classification...
View ArticleCITIZENS’ SATISFACTION WITH POLICE IN GUANGZHOU, CHINA
AbstractPurpose - This study examined citizens’ satisfaction with police in Guangzhou, China and aimed at answering two research questions: (1) what is the general pattern of Guangzhou citizens’...
View ArticleThe role of coaching in police driver training – An IPA study of coaching in...
AbstractPurpose - The aim of this study was to explore the potential value of coaching as a learning method for driver development within police blue light environments. Design/methodology/approach -...
View ArticleChinese Immigrants' Contact with Police
AbstractPurpose - This study aims to examine Chinese immigrants’ contact with local police, uncovering the extent, nature, distribution, and consequences of police contact. Although literature on...
View ArticleThe Gap Between Reality and Research: Another Look at Detecting Deception in...
AbstractPurpose - This paper presents a review of the deception detection literature that arrives at a different conclusion from the one presented by King and Dunn (2010). Specifically, our review...
View ArticleAddressing the baseline or the frontline? The multiform character of credible...
AbstractPurpose - The paper investigates the different and competing demands on police, and how this affect credibility of police performances. It also looks at a possible way out of these situations...
View ArticleLean management for traffic-police enforcement planning
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: We study the traffic-police enforcement process and develop models to improve enforcement effectiveness given substantial budgetary and resource...
View Article"Catch and Release": Predicting encounter and victim release location choice...
AbstractPurpose - Factors influencing crime location choices are not only significant to rape investigations, but they are especially important for geographic profiling. The current study uses...
View ArticleILP and Change in State Law Enforcement Agencies
AbstractPurpose - The events of September 11, 2001 forever changed policing with state and local law enforcement now playing a central role. In this new role many agencies have begun to re-assess how...
View ArticleThe Norwegian Police Force – a learning organization?
AbstractPurpose - The Norwegian Police Force – a learning organization? This paper examines what decisions to prosecute sent to the local police districts from the Norwegian Bureau for the...
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