Research focussing on US citizen attitudes of police has concentrated on city
policing agencies, neglecting varying attitudes toward county and state police.
Attempts to fill this void by testing the effects of individual and contextual
variables on citizen evaluations and police performance across city, county and
state levels using data collected from a state in the western USA. Finds
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a better method for prioritising
organised criminal groups, utilising the existing literature on organised crime
and risk assessment.Design/methodology/approachThe study began with an existing
prioritisation model, and then involved a review of relevant literature in the
fields of organised crime and risk assessment tools. It was then followed by
iter... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between police
investigators' decision‐making styles, degree of judgmental self‐doubt and work
conditions, on the one hand, and their wellbeing, stress, burnout tendency and
sleep quality, on the other.Design/methodology/approachThe study concerns
investigative police officers (n=203). Decision‐making styles were measured by
Scott and... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss unresolved problems that are
reflected in the social scientific research on the linguistic detection of
deception in statements, with particular attention to problems of methodology,
practical utility for law enforcement statement analysts, and
epistemology.Design/methodology/approachThe author reviewed the design, data,
statistical calculations, and ... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThere is a paucity of contemporary evidence on the organisational (as
opposed to operational) psychosocial hazard (OPH) exposures of UK police
officers. The purpose of this study is to report on OPH exposures measured via
an instrument developed by the UK government – the management standards
indicator tool – among police officers sampled from an entire UK force. The
study seeks to provide ... hiện toàn bộ
Policing in a democratic, free society is one of the essential arguments in the
literature. However, the data collected from the police chiefs (N = 306) show
that nepotism and favouritism, enforced mostly by politicians, are the main
problems in police organization in Turkey. That means that legality is ignored
by the governing political parties at the expense of democratization of
policing. Conse... hiện toàn bộ
Much attention is given to the topic of HIV/ AIDS within the general population
and several specific professions, namely the medical and related health‐care
fields. By comparison, little serious attention is devoted to the implications
this deadly disease poses for the law enforcement profession and its
practitioners. In response to this situation, a study was undertaken to assess
the nature, accu... hiện toàn bộ