Applied Police Research

Abstract

Editors' and Series Editor's forewords 1. Introduction, Ella Cockbain and Johannes Knutsson 2. Working in the field: Police research in theory and in practice, David Kennedy 3. Getting a foot in the closed door: Practical advice for starting out in research into crime and policing issues, Ella Cockbain 4. Tip-toeing through the credibility mine field: Gaining social acceptance in policing research, Rick Brown 5. Trust me, I'm a researcher, Gloria Laycock 6. Organized crime research: Challenging assumptions and informing policy, Edward R. Kleemans 7. Practical academics: Positive outcomes of police-researcher collaborations, Tamara D. Madensen and William H. Sousa 8. Numbers and narratives, Eli B. Silverman 9. Politics, promises and problems: The rise and fall of the Swedish police evaluation unit, Johannes Knutsson 10. An inside job: Managing mismatched expectations and unwanted findings when conducting police research as a police officer, Stefan Holgersson 11. Police research as mastering the Tango: the dance and its meanings, Jack R. Greene 12. There is nothing so theoretical as good practice: Police-researcher coproduction of place theory, John E. Eck 13. There is nothing so practical as a good theory: Teacher-learner relationships in applied research for policing, Nick Tilley.