This study compares the impact of multiple forms of crime-related media across white,
Latino, and African American respondents on their perception of crime risk in their …

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of crime-related media consumption on
individuals' opinions of the police. Using a statewide survey of 4245 California residents …

Police organizations must strategically control their external environment in order to
maintain organizational legitimacy. Exploiting their relationship with the news media is one …

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 …

Objectives: Democratic policing involves an ongoing dialogue between officers and citizens
about what it means to wield legitimate authority. Most of the criminological literature on …

Recently, numerous police organisations have made a strategic decision to employ humour
on social media, via memes and other comical posts, to increase community engagement …

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 …

Police forces in England and Wales in recent years have attempted to improve the ways in
which they communicate. This results from a number of converging pressures that include …

Research Summary Using open‐source data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), we
analyze national‐and state‐level trends in fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults of US police …

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence does a terrific job of discussing the
limited research on trends in the policing industry, but what it does not include is perhaps as …