The last two decades have been fraught for the policing profession, with police facing internal and external challenges to their public safety and legitimacy mandates. Much more research, analysis, and insights into policing are needed to inform policy, practice, and reforms in law enforcement and to achieve evidence-based policing. To move toward these goals, the current Editors-In-Chief of Criminology & Public Policy have published a second special issue on policing practice and policy, following their first special issue in 2020. This issue features thought-provoking and timely studies from leading researchers in the field on a variety of challenges facing policing today.
Criminology & Public Policy , the flagship policy and practice journal of the American Society of Criminology, is edited by Professors Cynthia Lum (George Mason University) and Christopher S. Koper (George Mason University).
“Without rigorous scientific knowledge to understand crime and policing, both police and communities will resort to guessing the best ways to improve the profession and its activities,” says Lum, who also directs the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University. “Research in Criminology & Public Policy is not only rigorous and cutting-edge, but also well-informed and intended to directly guide policy and practice so it is aligned more closely with knowledge from research.”
The 10 articles in the special issue address pressing topics in policing, including:
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Special Issue: Policing Practice and Policy
9-Aug-2024