Building the capacity of police change agents: The nexus policing project

Wood, Jennifer; Fleming, Jenny; Marks, Monique

doi:10.1080/10439460701718583

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“…Indeed, researchers have long found that police officers have a high degree of distrust towards outsiders (e.g., citizens, academicians, lawyers, etc.) (Paoline, 2003;Wood, Fleming, & Marks, 2008). While it would have been optimal to have sociodemographics, time in service, and rank information on nonresponders so that they could be compared to respondents, such data were not available from the agencies since no identifying information were shared between agencies and the lead researcher.…”

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General strain theory, exposure to violence, and suicide ideation among police officers: A gendered approach

Bishopp¹,

Boots

2014

Journal of Criminal Justice

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General strain theory, exposure to violence, and suicide ideation among police officers: A gendered approach

Bishopp¹,

Boots

2014

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Reflecting on the formation of the International Network for Hate Crime Studies (INHS), Perry et al (2015) also point out that researchers, practitioners and policy makers have tended to work in silos, with little communication across the sectors. Recent publications from academics (Fleming, 2012;Wood et al 2008;Fyfe and Wilson, 2012) and police (Wilkinson, 2010) have focused on how to build effective collaborations between police and academics, for instance highlighting the benefits to be gleaned from participatory action research (Wood et al 2008).…”

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Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

Lumsden

Goode

2016

Sociology

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“…In practice, however, researcher-led scholarship may eventually run up against fundamental limitations, since situated knowers presumably have unique access to some kinds of situated knowledge. 10 In that respect, the participatory action model of research that has been recommended and practiced by several policing scholars (e.g., Goldstein 1990;Bradley et al 2006;Wood et al 2007;Wuestewald and Steinheider 2007) holds considerable promise as a model of research for the front lines.…”

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Research for the front lines

Thacher

2008

Policing and Society

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It is a truism in the sociology of science that scientific knowledge bears the imprint of particular perspectives, interests, and values. In social science, it is especially common to find that research serves the needs of managers and policymakers better than it serves the needs of front-line workers. This paper analyzes the traces of that tendency in police research. By examining three features of front-line police work (the need to improve programs rather than assess them, the need to attend to an enormous number of situational details, and the need to cope with ambiguous and contradictory goals), I argue that common approaches to police research address managerial and policy concerns better than line officer concerns. To help rectify this imbalance, I discuss three variations on an alternative research strategy that deserves more emphasis in policy-oriented police research*one grounded in concrete case study description and analysis that often eschews causal generalizations.It is a truism in the sociology of science that all knowledge bears the imprint of particular perspectives, interests, and values, so that any particular scientific program serves the priorities of some groups rather than others. From a normative viewpoint it is not even clear that this influence is always nefarious. Aristotelians once valorized a disinterested approach to scientific inquiry, but the idea that knowledge should strive to advance specific human interests is at least as old as Francis Bacon, who insisted that 'it is by witness of works, rather than by logic or even observation, that truth is revealed and established.' As Bacon himself went on to note: 'It follows that the improvement of man's mind and the improvement of his lot are one and the same thing' (Farrington 1948: 93). From this perspective, scientists' views about what it means to 'improve man's lot'*and about whose lot in particular they should try to improve*unavoidably influence the scientific agenda.To claim a connection between truth and (non-cognitive) values is faintly scandalous for the obvious reasons, but at the general level I have invoked this claim it is impossible to deny. At minimum, no one doubts that the questions scientists ask are legitimately shaped by human interests, so which truths they discover (if not the very fact that those truths are true) depends on the interests to which they and those who influence their work are committed (e.g., Taylor 1985). That conclusion is so undeniable that the distinguished and decidedly non-radical philosopher of science William Newton-Smith (1984) dubbed it 'Boring Interest Thesis 1', and it is amply illustrated by agricultural and health research that serves first-world needs more effectively than third-world needs (e.g., by developing cures for diseases associated

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Building the capacity of police change agents: The nexus policing project

Cited by 56 publications

References 21 publications

General strain theory, exposure to violence, and suicide ideation among police officers: A gendered approach

General strain theory, exposure to violence, and suicide ideation among police officers: A gendered approach

Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

Research for the front lines

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