PurposeThe primary purpose of this paper is to examine attitudes toward the police in a sample of Canadian adolescents.Design/methodology/approachUsing survey data collected from 262 students attending 14 different high schools in...... hiện toàn bộ
In deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland the question of police reform cannot be divorced from broader political issues. This article looks at the connections between police reform and the political process, in the particular context of the recommendations of the Patten Report, which put forward a framework for a fundamental reform of policing in Northern Ireland. The problems ...... 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 natu...... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is 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 drugs.Design/methodology/approachThe ques...... 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...... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThis paper aims to analyse and critique common performance indicators for the policing of organised crime, and to propose a new approach.Design/methodology/approachThis paper was based on key respondent interviews with staf...... hiện toàn bộ
Carol A.Archbold, DanielLytle, CorneshiaWeatherall, AnnRomero, CatherineBaumann
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study lawsuits involving the police using newspaper accounts from three large cities in the USA.Design/methodology/approachA content analysis was conducted using 634 newspaper articles from t...... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine police officers' perceptions about their role in interviewing children, and to compare these perceptions with those of child eyewitness memory experts.Design/methodology/approachA div...... hiện toàn bộ