OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policing & Society is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparative Policing	27
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	23
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	22
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	22
‘We can’t be everywhere … but they can be out there’: co-producing road safety through Community Speedwatch	20
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note	16
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	15
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	13
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing	13
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	13
Public perceptions of police use of artificial intelligence to assist in generating police reports: findings from an experimental study	12
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	11
Why democratic police reform mostly fails and sometimes succeeds: police reform and low state capacity, authoritarianism and neo-patrimonial politics (in the former Soviet Union)	11
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26	9
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	9
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	8
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	8
The relationship between warrior and guardian mindsets and support for police reform	8
Neighbourhood policing	8
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	7
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	7
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	7
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	6
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	6
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	6

The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	6
‘It´s important – but someone else can do it’ police training and officers’ and students’ understanding and perceptions of crime prevention in Sweden	6
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	6
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	6
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	5
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	5
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	5
Revisiting police legitimacy: exploring determinants beyond performance, procedural justice, public satisfaction, and its practices	5
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	5
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales	5
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	5
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	5
Gendered policing and trust: transgender experiences and police education reform in Pakistan	5
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	5
‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–1939	5
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	5
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era	5
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure	4
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	4
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	4
A matter of trust? Policing violence against women and girls	4
Caseloads, culture, and capacity: rethinking investigative policing	4
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	4
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	4
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	4
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures	4
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	4
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	4
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	4
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities	4
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures	4
Implementation fidelity matters: insights from a realist evaluation of police drug diversion schemes in England	4
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	4
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	4
The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers	4