OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policing & Society is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse	24
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police	23
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police	20
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams	19
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England	17
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations	17
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing	17
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?	16
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–1850	16
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea	15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom	14
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility	13
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs	13
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application	13
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?	12
Stories from small museums	12
Correction	11
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues	11
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation	10
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions	10
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination	10
Comparative Policing	9
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing	8
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK	8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden	8

Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act	8
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care	8
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria	7
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26	7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note	7
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers	7
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?	7
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)	7
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims	6
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market	6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis	6
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing	6
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy	6
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis	6
Neighbourhood policing	6
Rocking the Boat	5
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing	5
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators	5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force	5
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews	5
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces	5
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales	5
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values	5
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK	5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales	5
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain	5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism	5
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level	4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy	4
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era	4
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan	4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce	4
‘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	4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea	4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination	4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom	4
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations	4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey	4
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales	4
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era	4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis	4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance	4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago	4
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes	4
The inevitable fallibility of policing	4
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington	3
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work	3
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	3
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures	3

Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure	3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints	3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity	3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision	3
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing	3
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases	3
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe	3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam	3
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era	3
The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh	3
Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study	3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants	3
r/ProtectandServe: an exploration of the virtual canteen culture regarding police misconduct	3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases	3
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities	3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism	3
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales	3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective	3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model	3
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes: challenges and opportunities in policing HBA	3
Correction	3
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies	3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage	3
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures	3
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	3
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives	3