Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98504 total results. Showing results 41861 to 41880 «209020912092209320942095209620972098Next ›Last » From School Halls to Shopping Malls: Multilevel Predictors of Police Contact in and Out of School Objectives: Individual- and school-level factors associated with youth being stopped, searched, or arrested in school are identified. Correlates of community-based contact are also examined. Methods: Longitudinal student surveys and corresponding school-level data come from 21 middle and high schools in 6 districts in St. Louis County, Missouri. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression was used to assess factors related to a three-category dependent variable, distinguishing youth with: (1) no police contact, (2) in-school contact, and (3) out-of-school contact. Independent variables capture student-level demographics, behavior, experiences, and perceptions and school-level characteristics and practices. Results: Factors associated with in-school contact include substance use, peer associations, prior contact, and prior school sanctions. Odds of school-based contact also increase when youth are less aware of school rules and perceive greater disorder. Among school-level characteristics, only officers responding to school problems is significantly associated with in-school contact. Conclusions: There is some consistency in individual-level factors associated with police contact across locations, particularly related to prior sanctions, but findings highlight potential mechanisms that vary across contexts. This study also provides evidence that some schoolwide responses may contribute to youth’s likelihood of having police contact in school, but solutions should consider the fluidity of contact in schools and communities. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 9/5/2022 Research article Police Digital Summit: Achieving outcomes together Salesforce is pleased to be a principal supporter of the Police Digital Summit 2022. Please come and say hello to us on stand 1 where we will be pleased to walk you through our end-to-end capabilities to help Police Forces with their transformation plans. Policing Insight 9/5/2022 Advertisement, Feature How Institutional Contexts Shape Police-Adolescent Encounters. A Study of France and Germany In a French-German study including a large survey of adolescents in four cities, we analyze the interaction patterns during stops. Based on the respondents’ reports of their last experience of a police stop/encounter, we look at the likelihood that they assessed the interaction as respectful or disrespectful, conflictual or even violent, and how either the police officers’ or their own behaviour contributed to this outcome. The comparative design of the survey allows us to examine differences in the institutional patterns of use of force during stops of adolescents by the French and German police (where, when, against which groups). Using multilevel regression analyses, we compare the individual and spatial predictors of disrespectful or violent interactions, in particular with regard to ethnicity and urban segregation in the two countries. While discrimination in the selection of targets is found in France, it is not in Germany. In addition, interactions are much more frequently reported as disrespectful and violent by French compared to German adolescents. These results align with previous research showing that France has a more confrontational policing pattern of work, with more stops, more racial profiling and more tensions during stops. We contend that an institutional theory of policing (ITP) is needed to account for the repeatedly found differences in how much force is used and how it relates to the use of stops and their modalities across the two states. We propose that ITP is made of the ‘pillars of institutional order’ as a theoretical framework for explaining those differences in police practices. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article Legitimacy and Cooperation With the Police: Examining Empirical Relationship Using Data From Africa In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra Leone) to test the argument that police effectiveness will have the greater influence on citizens’ assessment of the legitimacy of their local police department than will procedural justice. The study further examined the relationship between legitimacy and cooperation, as well as the direct and indirect effects of procedural justice and effectiveness on cooperation. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we found that procedural justice and effectiveness both predicted police legitimacy, but effectiveness had the greater influence. Also, legitimacy and procedural justice positively and directly predicted willingness to cooperate with the police. These observations have important policy implications for effective police practices in Africa. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article The Inevitable Fallibility of Policing The title of this paper is taken from the final sentence of the book How People Judge Policing (Waddington et al. [2017]. How People Judge Policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) which, though it had four authors, was really the brainchild of the late Tank Waddington. The paper picks up the book’s final observation and seeks to develop it, examining the problematic core of policing, and using this as a basis for thinking more generally about issues of trust, legitimacy and reform. There now exists an increasing body of research which shows how the delivery of policing can influence perceived procedural justice, the popular legitimacy of the police, and a variety of public behaviours such as compliance with the law and co-operation with the police (Tyler, [2017] Procedural justice and policing: A rush to judgement? Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 13, 29–53.). Such work is having increased impact on debates around police conduct and legitimacy and is increasingly seen as central to police reform efforts in Anglo-American policing, and in some other jurisdictions. Though accepting the broad thrust of such research, as well as its importance, this paper suggests that there are dangers in over-reading the potential of procedural justice, not least in forgetting some crucial lessons from the history of police research. The argument here focuses on the inherent complexity of policing and the inevitability of error within it. The simple but often overlooked lesson is that controversy and dissent are the norm rather than the exception in policing, and that much dispute and disagreement rather than reflecting a failure of approach or procedure, derive from the nature of policing itself. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article NCA Deputy Director General heads for defence sector A senior leader of the National Crime Agency is leaving the organisation to take up a new role. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 News Durham launch proactive alcohol and drug abuse campaign "Ahead of the Arrest" is designed to see officers step in in a bid to prevent future criminal activity. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 News 121 arrests in operation against migrant smuggling and human trafficking Operation Storm Makers busts criminal networks profiting from the movement of vulnerable men, women and children across borders. INTERPOL 9/5/2022 News Professor Nick Hardwick: ‘If you knew about this culture, why didn’t you do something about it? And if you didn’t know about it, why not?’ In a wide-ranging interview in the latest edition of ‘Talking Crime’, Policing TV’s Chief Presenter, Danny Shaw, spoke to Professor Hardwick about reforms to the parole system, building prisons, drugs policy, policing protests - and misconduct in the police service PolicingTV 9/5/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Professor Nick Hardwick: ‘If you knew about this culture, why didn’t you do something about it? And if you didn’t know about it, why not?’ In a wide-ranging interview in the latest edition of ‘Talking Crime’, Policing TV’s Chief Presenter, Danny Shaw, spoke to Professor Hardwick about reforms to the parole system, building prisons, drugs policy, policing protests - and misconduct in the police service PolicingTV - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Richard Gould: ‘Short-sighted, self-destructive decision-making ruined an effective initiative’ In the latest in a series of interviews with leading figures involved in the research and investigation of organised crime, Policing Insight’s Chris Allen spoke to financial crime consultant Richard Gould about enabling financial investigators to “cause mayhem in the criminal community”, the ongoing challenge of trade-based money laundering, and why the decision to discontinue some the UK’s international law enforcement projects was so misguided. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion Partygate: Metropolitan Police fines ‘issued over No 10 Christmas party’ Fresh fines said to have landed at No 10, as ministers ramp up ‘Beergate’ attacks on Keir Starmer The Independent 9/5/2022 News From Barnard Castle to Beergate: Durham police chief at centre of national row again Jo Farrell, criticised for not questioning Dominic Cummings over lockdown trips, is now investigating Keir Starmer The Guardian 9/5/2022 News The Moral and Emotional World of Police Informants The global pattern of implementing proactive policing to address crime and insecurity continues to drive undercover techniques, including the deployment of police informants. Our aim in this article is to reflect upon research on informants policing, setting out a more comprehensive agenda that appreciates the moral significance and power dynamics at play. Our starting point is that this practice embodies immense moral and emotional tension, both for the police officer and the informant. However, these deeper aspects have been largely underestimated by scholars. Research can garner new insights by conceptualizing the tactic in terms of vulnerability, morality and emotional labour. Police Journal - Registration at source 8/5/2022 Research article Strengthening DHS Intelligence Analysis Education: Core Competencies, Gaps, and Challenges Building and strengthening the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) workforce in counterterrorism operations starts with effectively trained and educated intelligence analysts. However, identifying and establishing standards for effective training and core competencies for intelligence analysts can be a challenge. By drawing on ethnographic interviews with members of the Intelligence Community (IC) and conducting domain analysis, this article sets out to understand those challenges and examine what is required to solve them. More specifically, we sought to identify benchmarks for core competencies associated with intelligence analysis as well as gaps in standardisation and the current implementation of intelligence training and education. Based on our findings, we recommend a conceptual framework for homeland security intelligence training and education and chart a path to build a more innovative and efficient intelligence workforce able to conduct analysis and develop intelligence products that contribute to the missions of DHS. Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism - Registration at source 8/5/2022 Research article ‘Crypto muggings’: thieves in London target digital investors by taking phones Thousands of pounds stolen in cases seen by the Guardian in reports from City of London police The Guardian 8/5/2022 News Special court deals with 168 cases in one month after police chief’s pledge to tackle domestic violence "It is our aim that more victims of domestic abuse can see how this court is leading the way in tackling this abuse and have the confidence in us to deliver justice swiftly for them" Manchester Evening News 8/5/2022 News JonBenét Ramsey’s brother slams ‘biased’ police’s failure to catch six-year-old’s killer UNITED STATES: Nobody has ever been convicted of the murder of beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey despite DNA being found at the scene which didn't belong to anyone in the family Mirror 8/5/2022 News Cop numbers in Scotland could fall to lowest level since 2008 Cop numbers in Scotland face a further fall after dropping to the lowest level since 2008, it was warned. The Scottish Sun 8/5/2022 News Crime commissioner admits ‘inaccuracies’ in comments on police Whatsapp scandal Emily Spurrell caused controversy in an interview where she described Merseyside Police as "institutionally racist" Liverpool Echo 8/5/2022 News «209020912092209320942095209620972098Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
