Criminology has long since moved away from cultural deficit or pathologizing explanations for street crime, instead advancing ecological explanations for offending that emphasize how developmental ...

Officer retention has become a pressing issue in modern policing as voluntary resignations reach unprecedented levels. Police agencies continue to face challenges recruiting new personnel, a diffic...

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In this paper, we assess a measurement approach to study sentiment toward the police using large-scale digital trace data and natural language processing (NLP). Existing research on the consequence...

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Involuntary holds, a tool used by mental health and criminal justice practitioners, are generally the first step in the civil commitment process to connect individuals in behavioral health crisis w...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) cadets complete the Cadet Training Program with lower putative risk and greater self-perceived resilience than young adults in the general population, implicati...

In the United States, Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) are used to notify the public of abducted children. However, there is no established guidance for writing AMBER Alert WEAs, and the vast major...

Open access (OA) and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) shape how researchers, practitioners, and policymakers discover and synthesize criminological knowledge. We examined how deep-researc...

Evidence based criminology and criminal justice requires social scientists to be open and willing to consider revising their priors in the face of new evidence. In this introduction to the third issue...

Moral injury (MI) occurs in a variety of serving occupations including among law enforcement professionals (LEP). MI was originally described among military veterans as distress arising from a viol...

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Vehicle stops represent one of the most frequent yet tactically complex interactions between law enforcement officers and civilians. Although often routine, they can escalate rapidly. This study in...

Studies on hot spot policing (HSP) find crime reductions in small areas, but little is known about their impact on the entire territory. Focusing on some areas may divert police from others, while ...