Johann Koehler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johann Koehler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johann |
| FAMILY NAME | Koehler |
| SIGNATURE | KOEHLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1305-891X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Strategies of Police Legitimation
The concept of police legitimacy has become central to the study of policing, yet scholarly attention has concentrated on legitimacy as an attitude measured among publics, rather than on the activities that produce legitimacy. This article reframes the problem as one of legitimation: the ongoing process through which police institutions seek to render their authority ordinary, necessary, and taken for granted. This shift in perspective highlights…
Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024
Claims to have made progress are a mainstay of organizational reputation management. However, confusing and contradictory performance expectations can make progress difficult to locate among a police department’s priorities. A case study of the Chicago Police Department’s front-facing pronouncements over more than a century and a half clarifies how a bureaucracy works, stretches, and repackages “progress” to resolve those confusions and contradic…
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation
We synthesize 53 meta-analyses on the effectiveness of correctional treatment applied to a wide variety of offender groups delivered in either custodial or community-based settings. Those meta-analyses revealed positive overall effects on reoffending of correctional treatment delivered in both settings. However, the treatment setting is also associated with complex moderator effects. With respect to effect size, for most groups, community-based c…
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923
We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department published from 1877 to 1923, we observe two techniques in how the police enacted that settlem…
Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Dilemma
Experimental criminology promises a public good: when experiments generate findings about criminal justice interventions, everyone benefits from that knowledge. However, experimental criminology also produces a free-rider problem: when experiments test interventions on the units where problems concentrate, only the sample assumes the risk of backfire. This mismatch between who pays for criminological knowledge and who rides on it persists even af…
Don’t talk to me about Marx any more
Penal (Ant)Agonism
In Breaking the Pendulum , Goodman, Page, and Phelps (2017) advance an “agonistic” perspective that contends struggle drives penal change, and that it does so through perpetual conflict. Yet studying only manifest struggles, when an actor made their resistance to a penal status quo known, presents thorny problems in conceptualizing conflict. One such problem is that conflict among agonists advocating competing penal policies presupposes consensus…
Development and Fracture of a Discipline: Legacies of the School of Criminology at Berkeley
In the early twentieth century, the University of California—Berkeley opened its doors to police professionals for instruction in “police science.” This program ultimately developed into the full‐fledged School of Criminology, whose graduates helped shape American criminology and criminal justice until well into the 1970s. Scholarship at the School of Criminology eventually fractured into three distinct traditions: “Administrative criminology” ap…
Development and Fracture of a Discipline: Legacies of the School of Criminology at Berkeley
In the early twentieth century, the University of California—Berkeley opened its doors to police professionals for instruction in “police science.” This program ultimately developed into the full‐fledged School of Criminology, whose graduates helped shape American criminology and criminal justice until well into the 1970s. Scholarship at the School of Criminology eventually fractured into three distinct traditions: “Administrative criminology” ap…
Penal (Ant)Agonism
In Breaking the Pendulum , Goodman, Page, and Phelps (2017) advance an “agonistic” perspective that contends struggle drives penal change, and that it does so through perpetual conflict. Yet studying only manifest struggles, when an actor made their resistance to a penal status quo known, presents thorny problems in conceptualizing conflict. One such problem is that conflict among agonists advocating competing penal policies presupposes consensus…
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923
We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department published from 1877 to 1923, we observe two techniques in how the police enacted that settlem…
Don’t talk to me about Marx any more
Development and Fracture of a Discipline: Legacies of the School of Criminology at Berkeley
In the early twentieth century, the University of California—Berkeley opened its doors to police professionals for instruction in “police science.” This program ultimately developed into the full‐fledged School of Criminology, whose graduates helped shape American criminology and criminal justice until well into the 1970s. Scholarship at the School of Criminology eventually fractured into three distinct traditions: “Administrative criminology” ap…
Penal (Ant)Agonism
In Breaking the Pendulum , Goodman, Page, and Phelps (2017) advance an “agonistic” perspective that contends struggle drives penal change, and that it does so through perpetual conflict. Yet studying only manifest struggles, when an actor made their resistance to a penal status quo known, presents thorny problems in conceptualizing conflict. One such problem is that conflict among agonists advocating competing penal policies presupposes consensus…
Don’t talk to me about Marx any more
Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Dilemma
Experimental criminology promises a public good: when experiments generate findings about criminal justice interventions, everyone benefits from that knowledge. However, experimental criminology also produces a free-rider problem: when experiments test interventions on the units where problems concentrate, only the sample assumes the risk of backfire. This mismatch between who pays for criminological knowledge and who rides on it persists even af…
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923
We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department published from 1877 to 1923, we observe two techniques in how the police enacted that settlem…
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation
We synthesize 53 meta-analyses on the effectiveness of correctional treatment applied to a wide variety of offender groups delivered in either custodial or community-based settings. Those meta-analyses revealed positive overall effects on reoffending of correctional treatment delivered in both settings. However, the treatment setting is also associated with complex moderator effects. With respect to effect size, for most groups, community-based c…
Strategies of Police Legitimation
The concept of police legitimacy has become central to the study of policing, yet scholarly attention has concentrated on legitimacy as an attitude measured among publics, rather than on the activities that produce legitimacy. This article reframes the problem as one of legitimation: the ongoing process through which police institutions seek to render their authority ordinary, necessary, and taken for granted. This shift in perspective highlights…
Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024
Claims to have made progress are a mainstay of organizational reputation management. However, confusing and contradictory performance expectations can make progress difficult to locate among a police department’s priorities. A case study of the Chicago Police Department’s front-facing pronouncements over more than a century and a half clarifies how a bureaucracy works, stretches, and repackages “progress” to resolve those confusions and contradic…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)