Policing

Dr Sancia West1, Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron1, Prof Roberta Julian1 1University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia There is a long history of engagement between law enforcement and public health.  Police officers are as much interventionists on the public health continuum (such...
  • August 21, 2018
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Hamida Zekiroski1, Rachel Gerrie1, Martine Powell1, 1Centre for Investigative Interviewing, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Interviewing witnesses of crime is a central plank in frontline police work. Therefore, officers must be skilled in eliciting the highest quality and...
  • July 26, 2018
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Trevor Bradley1 1Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Over the past decade New Zealand has witnessed a remarkable growth in ‘civic activism’ and the use of community volunteers to perform duties once the sole preserve of the police. Indeed,...
  • July 26, 2018
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David Baker1 1Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom This paper examines how police encounters with persons with mental illness (PMIs) in the US can lead to deaths after police contact. It uses qualitative semi-structured interviews with the bereaved family members of...
  • July 13, 2018
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Lisanne Adam1 1RMIT University – Graduate School Of Business And Law, Melbourne, Australia Confession evidence is considered the strongest evidence in criminal proceedings, hence, a false confession could be problematic. The exonerations of innocent individuals who falsely confessed have led...
  • July 9, 2018
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Frank V. Ferdik1 1Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of West Florida, fferdik@uwf.edu   Citizen satisfaction with law enforcement can greatly influence crime levels and even police officer job effectiveness. Copious research to date has explored predictors of citizen satisfaction...
  • October 25, 2016
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Matthew Ball1, Lorana Bartels2, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron3, Angela Dwyer3, Patricia Easteal2, Michele Grossman4, Jackie Hallam5, Roberta Julian3, Nicole L Asquith6, Leanne Sargent7 1 QUT 2 Uni of Canberra 3 UTas 4 VU 5 ATCD, Tasmania 6 WSU 7 Victoria Police Since 2014, academics and policing scholars from across Australia have...
  • August 30, 2016
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Matthew Ball1, Lorana Bartels2, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron3, Angela Dwyer3, Patricia Easteal2, Michele Grossman4, Jackie Hallam5, Roberta Julian3, Nicole L Asquith6, Leanne Sargent7 1 QUT 2 Uni of Canberra 3 UTas 4 VU 5 ATCD, Tasmania 6 WSU 7 Victoria Police Since 2014, academics and policing scholars from across Australia have...
  • August 30, 2016
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M. Mann*, I. Warren 1 School of Justice and Crime and Justice Research Centre, QUT 2 School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University *corresponding author: m6.mann@qut.edu.au Cyberspace, by nature, bridges conventional geographic divides. This has enormous implications for transnational...
  • August 29, 2016
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David S. Wall Cybercrime Research Unit, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. d.s.wall@leeds.ac.uk This paper will explore the practical and methodological issues arising from interdisciplinary empirical research into the demands made of policing agencies...
  • August 29, 2016
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