What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the
policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond …

I want to start this third edition of Media & Crime with the story of an event that could not have
opened the first edition published in 2004. On 15th April 2013, two bombs exploded close to …

This study examines the impact of computational journalism on the creation and
dissemination of crime news. Computational journalism refers to forms of algorithmic, social …

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have
shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures …

Today, the ubiquity of cameraphones and online social media's contributions to
sociopolitical discourses on policing have exponentially increased the public's exposure to …

In this paper, we examine the use of Twitter by city police departments in large US cities
(cities with populations greater than 300,000). The purpose of our study is to determine what …

This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the
shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical …

Project Eyewatch is an online policing strategy that utilises Facebook to promote and
facilitate community involvement in resolving local crime and policing issues. The strategy …

Currently, about 96% of US police departments have adopted social media, nearly 94% of
which have implemented Facebook. Unfortunately, researchers have not paid much …

In recent years, policing organisations have become increasingly savvy at producing
positive images of police work through both the old and new media via the growth in …