Police Authority, Respect and Shaming

A Police Complaints Authority study

"Is this really a police station? Police department exteriors and judgments of authority, professionalism, and approachability."

This study examined the relationship between exteriors of police department facilities and participants’ ratings of the buildings’ Authority, Professionalism, and Approachability. After a pilot study, research was conducted with 122 participants who were undergraduate students from a small, liberal arts college in the Northeast. On each of three characteristics (Authority, Professionalism, and ...

STOCKHOLM SWEDEN 2017 Mobility for the Swedish Police Authority

Digitalization is a topic that affects most of the industries as well as the society overall today. Within this topic, the use of mobile technology devices, such as smartphones, allows organizations to perform tasks in an anytime-anywhere situation – usually called enterprise mobility. The Swedish Police Authority see the potential of this technology shift that is happening and are currently fo...

Nudging, Shaming and Stigmatising to Improve Population Health; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. In this commentary, I suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging.

Nudging In both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic ince...