Advancement of problem-oriented policing has been stymied by over-attention to police organizations and under-attention to police problems. This paper develops a research agenda for understanding police problems by addressing four fundamental questions: What are problems? What causes problems? How can we find effective solutions to problems? And how can we learn from problem solving? For each q...

Studies of prosocial policing in nonhuman societies traditionally focus on impartial interventions because of an underlying assumption that partial support implies a direct benefit to the intervener, thereby negating the potential for being prosocial in maintaining social stability for the benefit of the group. However, certain types of partial interventions have significant potential to be pro...

A recent study of pigtailed macaques shows that most effective policing interventions in conflict situations are by socially powerful group-members, who sustain relatively low costs by intervening. Questions arise about the ontogenetic and phylogenetic emergence of policing individuals.

There is an extensive literature on policing internationally, with several academic journals devoted exclusively to policing issues. However, there is a relative dearth of research on gender and police organisations. This paper seeks to contribute to redressing this lack of gender-related policing research, through an examination of employment equity within two Australian police services, Queen...

This article explores patterns of police ”stop and frisk” activity across New York City neighborhoods. While “Broken Windows” theory may account for higher stop and frisk activity for “quality of life” crimes, the authors suggest neighborhood characteristics like racial composition, poverty levels, and extent of social disorganization are strong predictors of raceand crime-specific stops. The a...

Despite the pitfalls identified in previous critiques of the evidence-based practice (EBP) movement in education, health, medicine and social care, recent years have witnessed its spread to the realm of policing. This paper considers the rise of evidence-based policy and practice as a dominant discourse in policing in the UK, and the implications this has for social scientists conducting resear...

Over the past several decades and especially in the past decade, a broad trend in the world of policing has been the move toward more preventive and proactive styles. Beginning as a way to increase police legitimacy (Tilley 2003), community policing promotes stronger relations between police and communities to develop a greater flow of information about crime problems and aims to cultivate an e...

Network services with deterministic guarantees are based on a worst-case description of user-generated traffic. When designing a policing and scheduling algorithm for guaranteed services on the Internet, accuracy of description of the traffic profile has to be traded with simplicity of implementation. The result of this trade off is often expressed as the number of token buckets required by the...

I. Introduction Even in states that are, by most standards, flourishing, the demand for public security often exceeds the capacity of states to provide it. So it is that throughout most of the world, the state no longer has a monopoly on policing. Bayley and Shearing (1996; 2001) speak of the multilateralization of policing, by which they mean the variety of institutional forms, public, private...

For more than a decade, there has been a shift in policing among the industrialized nations. Several factors have moved police services towards an intelligence-led, data-driven approach to risk mitigation and operational decision-making. These factors include the perceived failures of the community policing model (Deukmedjian and de Lint, 2007), the ever-growing gap between demands for police s...