This research updates and expands upon Decker's article “Citizen attitudes toward the
police: a review of past findings and suggestions for future policy” by summarizing the …

This paper reviews liquid chromatographic–mass spectrometric (LC–MS) procedures for the
identification and/or quantification of drugs of abuse, therapeutic drugs, poisons and/or their …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …

There is tension between the core tenets of procedural justice and those of order
maintenance policing. Research has shown that citizens' perceptions of procedural justice …

Community policing has aimed to restore the legitimacy of the police. Not only must the
police have legitimacy to win public cooperation, but also a legitimate police institution …

Research Summary Broken windows theory (and policing strategies based on this
perspective) predicts that citizens' perceptions of disorder in their communities cause fear …

Two lines of critiques have developed in reference to broken windows theory:(1)
Concentrated disadvantage appears to be more intricately linked with disorder than the …

In this study we examine citizens' support for aggressive traffic enforcement strategies and
discuss whether the implementation of two different types of traffic enforcement decreases …

The principles and application of established and newer methods for the quantitative and
semi-quantitative determination of ergot alkaloids in food, feed, plant materials and animal …

Liquid chromatography—mass spectrometry has evolved from a topic of mainly research
interest into a routinely usable tool in various application fields. With the advent of new …