This review represents the eighth in an annual special feature in Police Practice and
Research: An International Journal. With a focus on the substantive categories, publication …

Considerable research focuses on the complainant experience with civilian oversight
agencies but we know much less about the perceptions of divergent stakeholders on the …

This study assessed the role of alternative dispute resolution options in the complaints
management systems of the eight policing jurisdictions in Australia and the single …

This article summarizes surveys of three key stakeholder groups in the police complaints
and discipline process: the public, complainants and police. In general, public and …

Accounts of police complainants and their experiences of oversight largely reflect North
American data. This article examines how complainants fare in Ireland, where police crisis …

Background Policing has long been recognized as a high-risk area for corruption and
misconduct. Further, with the effectiveness of democratic policing lying in the balance …

Given the confrontational nature of citizen–police interactions, citizen complaints against the
police are inevitable. In Trinidad and Tobago, citizen complaints are frequently ventilated via …

Background In 1997, in the United States, two police union leaders and a political consultant
published a book titled Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation: A Guide for the …

Responsive regulation advances the idea that overseers should act cautiously against
misconduct, imposing increasingly harsher methods in a phased approach depending on …

Chapter 1 examined how police complaints and discipline systems, including civilian
oversight systems, developed over time in response to corruptionIndependence …