Objectives To undertake a systematic review of the extent to which geographically focused
policing initiatives appear to displace crime (simply relocate it to other places) or diffuse …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

Successful community reentry and the criminological impact of incarceration may depend in
part on the attitudes (and consequent reactions) that prisoners encounter after release …

The automatic exchange and comparison of DNA data between national databases to
combat terrorism and cross-border crime in the EU area has been facilitated by the 2008 …

When large numbers of parent-aged adults, especially men, cycle through stays in prison
and jail at very high rates, communities are negatively affected in myriad ways, including …

Only a handful of studies have sought to explore the robustness of the relationship between
procedural justice, police legitimacy, and willingness to cooperate with police among adults …

Prior studies of criminal sanctioning have focused almost exclusively on individual-level
predictors of sentencing outcomes. However, in recent years, scholars have begun to …

The relationship between race/ethnicity, community dynamics, and juvenile court processes
has long been established. Prior research has relied on city‐or county‐level measures of …

Police culture creates an “us versus them” dynamic, which, at its worst, treats threats to the
“thin blue line” as worthy of group response. Prior research documents such a group threat …