Resource Results
As part of the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation program, BJA has prepared a series of research reviews on topics important to law enforcement. These reviews summarize findings from notable publications evaluating data-driven, evidence-based practices in law enforcement agencies. This review focuses on police legitimacy, including research about procedural justice and juvenile justice.
The idea of the “community” is critical to community oriented policing, yet many community policing efforts underestimate the role that residents play in crime control, or simply play lip service to community involvement. While police play an important role in crime control and are legally authorized to do so, the vast majority of crime control actually results from the everyday activities of citizens.
This paper describes a study of collective efficacy in Miami-Dade, Florida. The study investigates the following research questions:
What are the psychometric properties of the most popular measure of perceptions of collective efficacy (the Sampson, Raudenbush, and Earls (1997) scale)? Is this measure appropriate and well constructed and is it being modeled correctly in extant research on collective efficacy?
In response to the growing use of new and emerging technologies by law enforcement agencies, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has released a Technology Policy Framework to help law enforcement executives create policies that support responsible deployment and use.
In July 2004, the Phoenix Police Department transferred four crime scene specialists from its crime lab to the department’s homicide unit. Responsibilities of the crime scene specialists were to collect evidence at homicide scenes, prepare scene reports, develop scene diagrams, and other support activities. The primary objective was to improve homicide clearance rates by increasing investigative time through the addition of the crime scene specialists.
The Phoenix Homicide… Read More
Research indicates that litigants are more likely to leave court with a positive impression of their experience and to comply with court orders in the future when they perceive the court process as fair. This research underlines the importance of procedural justice. In court settings, procedural justice concerns the role of fair and respectful procedures and interpersonal treatment in shaping assessments of legal authorities and reactions to specific case outcomes.
Research has the greatest potential to impact change in practice and policy when (a) it is conducted in collaboration with practitioners rather than conducted by academic researchers alone, and (b) its findings are clearly communicated to the people who influence policy and practice in a useful, easy‐to‐read format (Block, Engel, Naureckas, & Riordan, 1999; Mouradian, Mechanic, & Williams, 2001). The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has devoted a great deal of effort to… Read More
The benefits of researcher‐practitioner collaborations within the criminal justice (CJ) system are many. They enhance responses to critical challenges facing communities. They lessen the gap between those who work on the front lines and those who study the system. They provide practitioners with evidence upon which to base their practices, services, and policies, and researchers with experience upon which to further their programs of research.
Research has the greatest potential to impact change in practice and policy when (1) it is conducted in collaboration with practitioners rather than conducted by an academic researcher alone, and (2) its findings are meaningfully communicated to the people who influence policy and practice in an easily read and understood format (Block, Engel, Naureckas, & Riordan, 1999; Mouradian, Mechanic, & Williams, 2001).
Research has the greatest potential to effect change in practice and policy when (1) it is conducted in collaboration with practitioners rather than conducted by an academic researcher alone, and (2) its findings are meaningfully communicated to the people who influence policy and practice (Block, Engel, Naureckas, & Riordan, 1999; Mouradian, Mechanic, & Williams, 2001). However, very little information has been shared by researchers and practitioners who have collaborated… Read More
