... examination, this study aims to understand how these individuals contribute to digital community safety, manage misinformation and interact with formal policing structures. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods survey was conducted with 65 moderators overseeing 61 neighbourhood Facebook groups...

...Jie Tao; Galia Cohen Purpose This study aims to examine whether and how a training program affects police officers’ perceptions of policing as a service-oriented profession. Given the increasing emphasis on service-oriented policing in recent reforms, understanding the impact of training...

... qualitative phenomenological design with supplementary quantitative data was used to gain a holistic understanding of the topic. Police officers (n = 53 survey; n = 5 interview), solicitors/barristers (n = 47 survey; n = 4 interview), intermediaries (n = 56 survey...

...Sarah Cant; Mary Makinde Purpose Keeping streets safe at night to protect users of the night-time economy (NTE) is a responsibility shared by the police and private security companies, yet little is known about this collaboration in practice. The study aims to explore the experience of both...

...Steven Wadley; Matthew Phillips Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of student perceptions (age 16+) of the value of both obtaining a university degree and how it relates to the profession of policing. In addition, the paper details opinions of the perceived benefit...

... a policing context. This paper aims to provide a review of an emerging forensic biological method, that of neuroscience, within a criminological context, to illustrate the importance of criminology embracing and reawakening its natural and medical science roots. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Bernhard Frevel; Philipp Kuschewski Purpose The demands on the police to ensure security and order have increased in times of growing right-wing extremism, corona protests and widespread criticism of and dissatisfaction with democratic structures and processes. Protection, escort or even...

...Ian Pepper; Colin Rogers Purpose This paper aims to consider the training provided to Volunteer Police Cadet (VPC) Leaders in police forces across England and Wales who, as part of the wider policing volunteer family, lead organised youth development activities for uniformed police cadets...

...Ben Brown Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine public perceptions of police efforts to control crime in South Korea. Design/methodology/approach The data were gathered from surveys administered to college students in the Seoul-Gyeonggi Province metropolitan area. Logistic regression...

...Toby Miles-Johnson Purpose The reality of policing in the twenty-first century is that most officers identify as white, heterosexual and cisgender (or identifying with the sex assigned to them at birth) and outnumber officers from diverse groups. Whilst many diverse officers are employed by police...

... fraud against the backdrop of victimisation. Fraud victims commonly experience deep dissatisfaction with current police and prosecutorial responses (Button et al., 2009 ; Cross et al., 2016) and experience additional trauma at the hands of the system (Cross, 2018). In this way...

... by a questionnaire-based survey on 186 police officials of Malaysia including Sabah and Sarawak. Data are analyzed using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and cross-sectional regression. Findings The results derived in the study showed a statistically significant positive relationship between three basic...

... approach. The research methods and results influencing training methods of the police as first responders to such incidents. Social implications The social implications of this paper are that it will encourage other researchers not to be afraid of what appears to be “hard to reach” and sensitive topics...

.... This unit was established as part of the transition from eight regional police services in Scotland to a single national police service, Police Scotland. An important part of this evaluation was to consider the messages from previous research into the development of national police units and the role...