Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the “state of the art” in research on police
legitimacy. The authors consider two bodies of theory and empirical research on police …

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 …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public's trust that police
authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police …

COMPSTAT, the latest innovation in American policing, has been widely heralded as a
management and technological system whose elements work together to transform police …

Traditional police culture (TPC) is a set of attitudes and values, developed as coping
mechanisms for police work's unique and inherent strains, that fosters distrust toward, and …

Research on organizational innovation is challenging given its complex nature. Using
review and critique of the vast innovation literature, we identify some of the key conceptual …

Victims of human trafficking are deprived of the most basic human right: the right to freedom.
Trafficking victims are often forced into cruel and dehumanizing working conditions and are …

About three decades ago, a few American police leaders caught the wave of community
policing reform, and now just about everybody has gone surfing. If recent nationwide polls of …

Over a decade after it was first introduced, community policing remains the most important
innovation in American policing today. Called" the most significant era in police …