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Police and protest in the digital age – a post-Soviet comparison of citizen-police relations 数字时代的警察与抗议——后苏联时期公民与警察关系的比较

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-11-12 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2279058

Nadja Douglas

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‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations “电缆中的线”:在大量犯罪调查中使用法医鉴定证据的有效调查员决策

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2279063

Cheryl Brown, Roberta Julian, Loene M. Howes

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Can dialogue help police officers and young Black adults understand each other? Key findings from a restorative process 对话能帮助警察和年轻的黑人成年人相互理解吗?修复过程的主要发现

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2279067

Ian D. Marder, Katharina Kurz

{"title":"Can dialogue help police officers and young Black adults understand each other? Key findings from a restorative process","authors":"Ian D. Marder, Katharina Kurz","doi":"10.1080/10439463.2023.2279067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2279067","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRelationships between the police and minority ethnic communities are often characterised by tension, mistrust and a lack of understanding. It seems unlikely that the solutions lie in traditional approaches to police-community engagement. This article outlines the key findings from the first study to use restorative practices to facilitate dialogue between police officers and young Black adults in Europe. This occurred in a part of West Dublin, Ireland, where the police recently shot and killed a Black man. Observational and interview data suggest that the process enabled participants to speak and listen respectfully to each other and to understand how each other’s experiences shaped their perspectives on policing. These data suggest that restorative practices are a viable method for enabling dialogue that can play an educational role and provide a space safely to discuss and reflect upon views and experiences of belonging, policing and police-community relations. While there is sufficient evidence to justify seeking to scale-up dialogic processes, it remains unclear whether and how the contribution that dialogue can make at the individual and local level could translate into cultural change at the institutional level, or address underlying structural inequalities.KEYWORDS: Police-community relationsDialogueRestorative practicesAn Garda SíochánaPolicingInstitutional racism AcknowledgementsWe acknowledge the substantial effort from all project partners and participants in making this happen.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by funding from the Irish Research Council (New Foundations).","PeriodicalId":47763,"journal":{"name":"Policing & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London 2019冠状病毒病危机期间公众支持赋权警察:来自伦敦的证据

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2279061

Julia A. Yesberg, Zöe Hobson, Krisztián Pósch, Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, Arabella Kyprianides, Reka Solymosi, Paul Dawson, Nicole Ramshaw, Emily Gilbert

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Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters 青少年与私人保安的接触:强迫性和辅助性的接触

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2273491

Samuel Ricardo Neves Moreira, Mariana Sebastião Machado, Inês Maria Ermida Sousa Guedes, Carla Sofia de Freitas Lino Pinto Cardoso

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Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing 公众警务:扩展节点警务方法

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2255922

S.J. Cooper-Knock, Julie Berg, Tessa Diphoorn

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LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination 美国联邦服务中的LGBTQ+官员:对工作场所包容性和经历性别歧视的调查

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2269290

Helen H. Yu, David Lee

{"title":"LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination","authors":"Helen H. Yu, David Lee","doi":"10.1080/10439463.2023.2269290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2269290","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWorkplace inclusion occurs when employees perceive a workplace climate that values all employees and treats them fairly with dignity and respect. Yet, social identity theory suggests that this inclusive culture remains limited among LGBTQ+ employees, especially in hyper-masculine occupations such as policing. Using a sample of 4,578 sworn officers, this study examines the level of inclusion perceived by LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service, in comparison to non-LGBTQ+ officers. The moderating effects of inclusion are also investigated on LGBTQ+ officers who experience sex-based discrimination, to include sexual harassment. Findings suggest LGBTQ+ officers perceive less inclusion in the workplace than non-LGBTQ+ officers. However, LGBTQ+ officers who report working in an inclusive climate are less likely to experience incidents of sexual harassment, while there is no significant effect for sexual discrimination. These findings are important because they extend the discourse on capturing the workplace experiences of an underserved or disadvantaged community in policing scholarship.KEYWORDS: Inclusionsocial identity theorygender identityLGBTQsex-based discrimination AcknowledgementsThis publication is based upon work conducted under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cooperative Research and Development Agreement No. 21-CRCL-001. The views and/or conclusions contained in this document are those of the author(s) and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the DHS, and do not constitute a DHS endorsement of the equipment tested or evaluated.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Human subjects researchHuman studies research approval (protocol number 2020-01000) was granted by the University of Hawai‘i Institutional Review Board, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA.","PeriodicalId":47763,"journal":{"name":"Policing & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135854546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The everyday political economy of private security 私人安全的日常政治经济

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2268256

Adam White, Tessa Diphoorn

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From criminalisation to harm reduction? The forms and functions of police drug diversion in England and Wales 从定罪到减少伤害?英格兰和威尔士警察毒品分流的形式和作用

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2267729

Matthew Bacon

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Strategies for resilience: results from a German pilot project to prevent far-right radicalisation within the police 弹性策略:德国一个防止警察内部极右翼激进化的试点项目的结果

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Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2267732

Daniel Koehler, Julia Filipps

{"title":"Strategies for resilience: results from a German pilot project to prevent far-right radicalisation within the police","authors":"Daniel Koehler, Julia Filipps","doi":"10.1080/10439463.2023.2267732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2267732","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPreventing and countering potential far-right radicalisation within police forces is a major concern in many countries. Specific interventions such as anti-racism or intercultural competence training programmes for police officers are seen as key to build resilience against the lures of extremist ideologies and milieus. However, a dearth of empirical research investigating the factors that influence receptivity or rejection by the target group – police officers – impedes the design and implementation of effective interventions. This study presents findings from a formative evaluation accompanying a pilot project within the state police of the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg called ‘Strategy Sponsorship for Democracy and Tolerance’. Drawing on three focus groups, five individual problem-centred interviews, and 603 feedback reports, the study finds that peer-to-peer approaches, voluntary participation, leadership support, freedom in topic selection and intervention planning, as well as budgetary independence positively impact the acceptance of interventions and motivation to engage. Age of participants, resource constraints and administrative challenges, as well as reservations about project aims and contents were found to increase the risk of rejection. Implications for optimising interventions for police forces are discussed.KEYWORDS: policecounter-radicalisationpreventing violent extremisminterventionstrainingresistancereceptivitypilot projectGermany Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":47763,"journal":{"name":"Policing & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136211333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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