Policing: An International Journal: Volume 21 Issue 2

Sources of crime guns in Los Angeles, California

Julius Wachtel

There is agreement in the literature that offenders often acquire guns through unregulated private encounters with friends, family members and petty criminals. Although anecdotes…

The most‐cited scholars and works in police studies

Richard A. Wright, J. Mitchell Miller

Although numerous studies recently have appeared that identify the most‐cited scholars and works in the general criminology and criminal justice literature and in several…

Arming the campus cops: a descriptive and multivariate assessment of support

Don Hummer, Thomas L. Austin, Vic W. Bumphus

The general characteristics of crimes occurring on American college and university campuses have changed, reflecting a much greater frequency and variety of criminal activities…

Defining the community caretaking function

Jack E. Call

In Cady v. Dombrowski (1973), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a warrantless search for a weapon in a wrecked car driven by a police officer who had been taken to…

Swedish police selection and training: issues from a comparative perspective

Vivian B. Lord

Compares the relationship of selection and training of police officers in Sweden and the USA. The ability to identify stable, effective police officers continues to baffle police…

A textual critique of community policing: police adaption to high modernity

Victor E. Kappeler, Peter B. Kraska

Employs the semiotic method to explore community policing reform and its use of language as a form of social control. Uses postmodern theoretical and methodological filters to…

Burglary victims and the response of the police: Findings from a Hungarian city

R.I. Mawby, I. Gorgenyi

Reports on a survey of burglary victims in Hungary, focusing on both their experiences of the crime and their perceptions of the way the police handled the incident. Using police…

Policing in the wake of Hurricane Andrew: Comparing citizens’ and police priorities

Lonn Lanza‐Kaduce, Roger Dunham, Ronald L. Akers, Paul Cromwell

Taking advantage of the breakdown of formal social control directly following Hurricane Andrew in Miami, Florida this paper conducts a naturally occurring breaching experiment to…

I’m OK ‐ you’re not OK: Drivers’ attitudes toward police officers enforcing traffic laws

Dana Yagil

The study examined drivers’ perceptions of police officers enforcing traffic laws as well as emotions stimulated during apprehension. The subjects, 693 males in the army…

The armed police in the British colonial tradition: The Indian perspective

Dilip K. Das, Arvind Verma

The model of policing which originated in Ireland was designed to police a foreign land and is known as the colonial system. Describes the influence of the colonial model in the…