Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 94098 total results. Showing results 70181 to 70200 «350635073508350935103511351235133514Next ›Last » Cheshire Police’s top female cop leaves for new role Janette McCormick led force through 'some challenging times' Cheshire Live 6/2/2019 News Cleveland Police accused of being ‘locked in scandal cycle’ A police force has been accused of being locked in a "cycle of scandal and disaster" after another chief constable stepped down. BBC 6/2/2019 News Elevating the Scientific and Public Policy Discourse on Crime Prevention: Taking Stock of the ‘What Works’ Report’s Influence 20 Years on In 1997, the Office of Justice Programs published Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising (Sherman, L. W., Gottfredson, D. C., MacKenzie, D. L., Eck, J. E., Reuter, P., and Bushway, S. D. (1997). Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising. Washington, DC: Office of Justice Programs). The report was commissioned by the US Congress and was prepared by a team of criminologists from the University of Maryland. It aspired to be a methodologically rigorous and comprehensive review of the effectiveness of crime prevention programmes, ranging from prenatal home visits to community policing to parole. This 20-year review of the ‘what works’ report finds that it has been influential in elevating both the scientific and public policy discourse on crime prevention. It did this on three main fronts. First, it reaffirmed that not all evaluation designs are equally valid and made clear that only designs that provide confidence in observed effects should contribute to the evidence base. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 6/2/2019 Research article The Spatial Effect of Police Foot Patrol on Crime Patterns: A Local Analysis A foot patrol program was implemented in Lower Lonsdale, British Columbia, in the summer of 2010 and continues today. As a part of assessing the foot patrol’s effect on crime in the neighbourhood, the spatial similarity was examined by comparing the crime pattern before the foot patrol initiative (2007-2009) with the crime pattern during the foot patrol program (2010-2012). Considering these baseline and treatment data sets and a spatial point pattern test, the spatial similarity between two data sets is analyzed. In general, the continued presence of foot patrol appears to have created a concentration of crime in specific areas, rather than a diffusion effect. The areas that continued to experience increased crime during foot patrol presence were often in the catchment area, suggesting displacement does occur, or along the border between the catchment and primary patrol area. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - Registration at source 6/2/2019 Research article West Midlands Police are dealing with eight knife crimes every day Cuts in police numbers have been blamed after knife crime doubled in the West Midlands over five years Birmingham Post 6/2/2019 News Cleveland Police ‘isn’t broken’ says interim chief constable Lee Freeman The interim Chief Constable of troubled Cleveland Police said the force is ‘not broken’ and there was no reason it couldn’t become ‘one of the best forces in the country’. The Northern Echo 6/2/2019 News UK police test if computer can predict criminal behaviour Durham is first force in Britain to use algorithm to assess likelihood of reoffending Financial Times 6/2/2019 News Fifteen BTP officers attacked every week updated figures reveal Reported assaults include an attempted murder and 13 sexual assaults Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/2/2019 News The day a force had to say ‘no’ to policing its people MPs told of a chief's angst when he literally ran out of officers on a 'demanding' Sunday. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/2/2019 News Development of A Measure of Mental Health Stigma Including Police Behaviors Various stigmatizing notions are associated with mental illness, resulting in negative personal (e.g. employment discrimination) and societal (e.g. public treatment of the mentally ill as ‘dangerous’ and/or ‘criminal’) outcomes. This study develops and validates a new multi-scale assessment tool to assess several dimensions of mental illness stigma, including perceived dangerousness, self-care, social distance, treatment amenability and predicted police behaviour. A total of 641 undergraduate students from various American universities completed the new stigma measure along with two other existing measures. The results indicate that the new stigma measure has an acceptable three-factor solution consisting of self-care, dangerousness and police behaviour. The self-care and dangerousness factors were found to have concurrent validity with the corresponding scales of the existing measures. Future research involving different populations, as well as the policy implications of the new police behaviour factor, are discussed. Psychiatry Psychology and Law - Registration at source 6/2/2019 Research article Dealing With the Authority to Use Force: Reflections of Belgian Police Officers Based on 39 interviews with Belgian frontline police officers this article discusses police use of force from the viewpoint of the police officer. Since police officers have a certain amount of discretion, differences can be noticed in how they are dealing with their unique authority to use force. Inspired by the study of Muir [(1977. 1977. Police: streetcorner politicians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press)] the article explores attitudinal policing styles of Belgian police officers, and as such illustrates different ways of dealing with the use of force. Furthermore, officers’ reflections on how (and why) their attitude to and way of dealing with the use of force has evolved throughout their career are explored. Thereby, two (learning) processes are discerned: (1) a process of gaining/losing comfort in (not) using force and (2) a search for ‘the appropriate’ approach. The study indicates that several police officers, at least at some point in their career, are uncomfortable and/or insecure about using force. At the start of their career, police officers predominantly attribute the unease to use force to a lack of street experience. However, several senior officers also point at specific personal experiences and a perceived shortage of organisational support which made them more insecure to use force later in their careers. Besides that, the study discloses the major influence of peers and field supervisors on the development of a police officer’s moral compass for making use-of-force decisions. Policing and Society - Registration at source 6/2/2019 Research article The Public-Private Divide Revisited: Questioning the Middle Ground of Hybridity in Policing The increasing pluralisation of policing and the changing patterns of security have in the past decades called into question the sharp dividing lines between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’. For instance, Marc Schuilenburg ([2015. The securitization of society: crime, risk, and social order. New York University Press]) outlines the notion of the middle ground – where everything is becoming hybrid – which fundamentally changes the relationships and practices of policing agencies, making the conceptual pairs of public-private obsolete. However, by examining policing collaboration in the airport and maritime port environment in Norway, the empirical findings in this article reveal that the public-private divide is still salient to the various policing agencies. The findings are at odds with the conceptual and empirical assumptions about the middle ground of hybridity in policing. The article demonstrates that both public and private policing agencies strongly rely on the traditional dividing lines of public and private to navigate and make sense of their practices and relations, as well as their own sense of identity in a complex policing environment. The article discusses the implications of these findings. Policing and Society - Registration at source 6/2/2019 Research article 10% rise in taxes to pay for police has been blocked The Police and Fire Commissioner for North Yorkshire says it's a great shame that the police, fire and Crime panel has vetoed her attempt to secure a rise of 10% in funding via the council tax for the force. Minster FM 6/2/2019 News Troubled Cleveland Police’s complaint about Mayor’s comments is rejected Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has been cleared of any wrongdoing after Cleveland Police lodged an official complaint against him. The Northern Echo 6/2/2019 News All police leave cancelled for a month after Brexit Sussex Police has cancelled all annual leave for a month from Friday 29 March – the date when Britain plans to leave the European Union, known as Brexit. Brighton & Hove News 6/2/2019 News The Times view on social media regulation: web police Social media firms are publishers, with the same responsibilities as all publishers. Britain is overdue a debate about how they should be regulated, and by whom The Times - Subscription at source 6/2/2019 Feature, Opinion Home Secretary Sajid Javid hands new powers to police so that they can evict travellers from illegal camps Police will get tough new powers to clamp down on illegal traveller sites causing ‘distress’, Sajid Javid will announce today. Mail Online 6/2/2019 News Police force that ‘literally ran out of officers’ Police force that 'literally ran out of officers': How spate of rapes, gang attacks and a jail riot left Bedfordshire with no one left to cover incidents Mail Online 6/2/2019 News Stephen Lawrence’s mother Doreen rejects knife crime Asbos Stephen Lawrence’s mother has criticised government plans to create knife crime prevention orders, warning that they would criminalise children. The Times - Subscription at source 6/2/2019 News Students give up their books for a year on the beat Students are swapping lectures for patrols as they become police officers for a year in the first project of its kind to tackle crime on campus. The Times - Subscription at source 6/2/2019 News «350635073508350935103511351235133514Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
