The utilization of research by the police☆

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21177335
AutoresJeff Rojek (University of South Carolina, autor correspondente), Geoffrey P Alpert (University of South Carolina), Geoffrey Alpert, Howard Persifor Smith (0000-0001-5000-5094, University of South Carolina), Hayden Smith
Ano2012
Volume13
Fascículo4
Páginas329-341
Data de publicação2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolice Practice and Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1561-4263 • E-ISSN: 1477-271X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15614263.2012.671599
OpenAlexW2011415081
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas20

The present-day interest in linking police practitioners and researchers in the USA finds its roots in a 40-year old recommendation made by the 1967 President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Specifically, the Commission called for the use of social science to assist law enforcement agencies in their efforts to understand better and address the problems they face in their related communities. This advocacy spawned the rapid growth of empirical research intended to provide support to the law enforcement community. Moreover, these research endeavours found important support in federal grant funding initiatives from the US Department of Justice through the National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Despite this tremendous effort to link the police practitioner and research communities, there has been little knowledge on whether the resulting empirical knowledge is utilized by the law enforcement community in the USA. The article explores the degree of this utilization through the findings of a national survey of approximately 850 law enforcement agencies in the USA. The survey explored whether law enforcement executives utilize research to inform their decisions on policy development and operations, to what areas of agency operations they have applied this research and the sources they rely upon to find this empirical knowledge. The findings show that reported use of research findings may not necessarily reflect a connection with the empirical work of the research community

Business · Commission · Criminal justice · Criminal justice ethics · Economic Justice · Empirical research · Enforcement · Law enforcement · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration