Police Journal Research Articles

The Rise of Police Science and Crime Science in Indonesia: The Police Journals

This study argues that police science and crime science will rise in Indonesia. The publications in police journals facilitate this condition. This study was conducted through a narrative review. The study finds that Indonesian police science has been discussed in the literature, but Indonesian crime science has not. The police journals managed by the INP and related journals shall be used to disseminate policing in Indonesia. Without integrated collaborative measures, the development of police and crime sciences in Indonesia will be slowly achieved. This paper suggests improvements to the management of the police journals. With the advance of the journals, passionate people from various disciplines in Indonesia and global nations may be invited to help improve policing in Indonesia.

Az első rendőrségitörvény-javaslat

The establishment of the Hungarian public administration was marked by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, after which the establishment of the Hungarian state police came to the fore. In 1848, Bertalan Szemere entrusted Paul Hajnik with the establishment of a national police force, in 1873 a state police force in the capital, in 1903 a border police force, and in 1918 the Wekerle police bill. At the beginning of this process, the Police Act proposal of 1871 by Pál Csepy, which clearly calls for the establishment of a national police force, was drafted and survives. Aim: The aim of the study is to present the circumstances and content of the first Police Act proposal, from the beginning of the police nationalisation process. Methodology: The author of the article examines the beginning of the nationalisation of the police, the first police act and its content by searching and analysing the literature on policing around the Compromise. Findings: The Compromise of 1867 also provided opportunities for the restoration of autonomy in the field of police and policing. After Habsburg rule, the following three ideas for future policing emerged: strengthening the old Pandour world, organising a military-style gendarmerie or a civilian-style police force. After a professional debate in the first police journal, the participants in the first Congress of Police Chiefs advocated a national police force, for which a high-quality police act was drafted and submitted to the political leadership. Value: The nationalisation process of the police started in 1848 and lasted until 1920. In the preceding period, a law on the field police was passed in 1840, and after 1872 laws were passed on the metropolitan police, the border police, the police of Fiume and the gendarmerie. Comparing the 1871 Police Act with the laws on the above subjects, it can be seen that the latter was comprehensive, covering all aspects of policing, and proved to be valuable and timeless.

Literature Review as a Research Method in Scopus-Indexed Police Journals: a Scoping Review

Literature Review as a Research Method in Scopus-Indexed Police Journals: a Scoping Review

Construction of Facial Composites from Eyewitness Memory.

Law enforcement agencies often rely on practical technologies to help witnesses and victims of crimes construct likenesses of faces from memory. These 'face composites' are typically circulated to law enforcement officers and made accessible to the public in the hope that someone familiar with the depicted person will recognise their likeness and thus provide the police with a suspect. We will review methods for constructing such likenesses from memory dating back to the portrait parlé of Alphonse Bertillon (Signaletic instructions including the theory and practice of anthropometrical identification. Werner Company, 1896) and the composite images of Francis Galton (Nature 18:97-100, 1878). We will also review more modern methods, ranging from the overlay techniques of Identi-Kit (McDonald, c 1959) and Photo-Fit (Penry J. The Police Journal 43:307, 1970) to feature-based computerised composite systems such as Identi-Kit 2000, FACES, and ProMat. Most early systems were based on the common-sense notion that sectioning a face is invertible: just as a face can be sectioned into components, so it can be recreated by arrangements of sections. This assumption appears to be unwarranted. The underlying problem with earlier face systems may have been the absence of a representational or computational theory. This led in the late 1990s to the development of the so-called third-generation holistic composite systems, which are based on underlying statistical and mathematical models of face images (e.g. ID [Tredoux et al. South African Computer Journal 2006:90-97, 2006], EvoFIT [Frowd CD, Hancock PJB, & Carson D. ACM Transactions on Applied Psychology (TAP) 1:1-21, 2004a], E-FIT [Gibson et al., International Conference on Visualisation, 146-151, 2003]). A special focus of the chapter will be on these newer technologies and other recent technological innovations. Our approach will be to review (i) the methods of operation, (ii) the techniques identified by psychologists and other researchers for improving the quality of information obtained from memory, and (iii) the empirical data on the effectiveness of these systems at representing faces from memory. We will consider related issues, too, including the question of whether face composites damage witness memory, and the ethics of face composition.

The beginnings of international police cooperation

Aim: The aim of the study is to present the initial process of international police cooperation, with particular reference to the events that took place in Europe and with Hungarian participation.Methodology: The paper approaches the subject indicated in the title from several aspects. It describes the events of international police cooperation between 1869 and 1938 by examining reports published in Hungarian police journals of the period, including the accounts of prominent contemporary representatives of police sciences, and compares them with the assessment of the period in 21st century written on the subject in English. Finally, it details the history of Finnish-Hungarian police cooperation in the period before the World War II., which is a good example of the efforts made by the then Hungarian police to establish bilateral co-operation with friendly countries.Findings: While contemporary accounts understandably focus on the events and their immediate causes, 21st century analyses have a historical perspective of the professional, historical and political factors that made international cooperation necessary and possible and of those that hindered its development.Value: All the sources agree on the conclusion – also undisputed today – that at a certain point of historical-technical development, the global emergence of cross-border crime and the changes in the modi operandi make it necessary to implement international cooperation among police forces (including the exchange of experience and intelligence and the establishment of the appropriate organisations).

Türk Kadınının İlk Defa “Polis” Olması

This study examined the process through which Turkish women become police officers together with the enforcement of this right throughout the world. In the 19th century, radical changes occurred in domestic security throughout the world, and military organizations withdrew from this field with the development of an understanding of the law and the democratic state. Internal security services have been increasingly provided by civilians, and well-equıpped law enforcement and police agencies have been established around the world. Women, who are accepted as an important part of society, have taken their places in police organizations over time. The first female police recruitment was a matter of wonder in the Turkish Police Organization, which was established with 46 male soldiers in 1845. The main data sources of this study were periodicals, especially the Police Journal. Otoman Archive documents and EGM Archive documents were also used. Our study covers the 1930s during which Turkish women became police officers for the first time. The first female police recruitment process in Turkey has been revealed. Although female officers were employed in different civil servant positions within the police organization during the Ottoman period, it was concluded that recruitment of female police officers was conducted for the first time during the Atatürk Period of Turkish history. Turkish womens’ entry into the police force should be regarded as an important revolutionary movement and its anniversary should be celebrated every year.

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Comment

Previous articleNext article No AccessCommentsAn Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A CommentSteven N. Durlauf and James J. HeckmanSteven N. DurlaufUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author and James J. HeckmanUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 128, Number 10October 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/710976 Views: 3687Total views on this site Citations: 10Citations are reported from Crossref HistoryPublished online September 08, 2020 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Stephen B Perrott The recruitment of women and visible minorities into Canadian police forces: Should we expect further progress?, The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 96, no.11 (Aug 2021): 26–44.https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211032106Brendan O’Flaherty, Rajiv Sethi Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice, (Nov 2022): 1–25.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4016-9_10-1Richard Stansfield, Ethan Aaronson, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn Police use of firearms: Exploring citizen, officer, and incident characteristics in a statewide sample, Journal of Criminal Justice 75 (Jul 2021): 101828.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2021.101828Jessica Huff Understanding police decisions to arrest: The impact of situational, officer, and neighborhood characteristics on police discretion, Journal of Criminal Justice 75 (Jul 2021): 101829.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2021.101829Ian Lundberg, Rebecca Johnson, Brandon M. Stewart What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory, American Sociological Review 86, no.33 (Jun 2021): 532–565.https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224211004187Matt E. Ryan Frisking, (Aug 2021): 1–4.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_685-2Brendan O'Flaherty, Rajiv Sethi Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice, SSRN Electronic Journal 41 (Jan 2021).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3808745Roland G. Fryer Jr. An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Response, Journal of Political Economy 128, no.1010 (Sep 2020): 4003–4008.https://doi.org/10.1086/710977Deepak Premkumar Intensified Scrutiny and Bureaucratic Effort: Evidence from Policing and Crime After High-Profile, Officer-Involved Fatalities, SSRN Electronic Journal 103 (Jan 2020).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3715223Dionissi Aliprantis, Hal Martin, Kristen Tauber What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?, SSRN Electronic Journal 102 (Jan 2020).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3737041

Erratum

Erratum to ‘Deaths under the responsibility of the Dutch police: Lessons to be learned’ by E Thoonen, B Kubat and W Duijst. The Police Journal 2015: 88(2): 123-136 [DOI: 10.1177/0032258X15585248] Table 4 of this article was published incorrectly. The correct Table 4 can be found below. [Table: see text]

Correlation between manager’s leadership style and the implementation process of “ mother friendly hospital plan ” in selected hospitals in west of country Iran (kordestan, hamedan and Kermanshah provinces) in 1391.

Correlation between manager’s leadership style and the implementation process of “ mother friendly hospital plan ” in selected hospitals in west of country Iran (kordestan, hamedan and Kermanshah provinces) in 1391.

Contentious Veterans

What drives retired military officers in China toward contention? Decades of research on protest has produced little on veterans’ collection action, and even less on that by ex-officers. Newspaper reports, police journals, and veterans’ blogs show that contention by Chinese former officers (ranging from occupying government compounds to marches, mass petitioning, open letters, and class action lawsuits) is the result of bad luck in post-military job assignments, a fragmented political system that makes it difficult to ensure that pensions and other benefits reach retirees, and pervasive corruption that leads ex-officers to feel that local officials have embezzled funds meant for them. Contention by former officers typically uses military rhetoric and builds on military experiences, even for former officers who were employed in civilian jobs for many years. Although contention by ex-officers is not likely to rock the state, it says much about how “sticky” military identities are, where veterans fit in the political landscape, Leninist civil–military relations, and the treatment that old soldiers receive in a fast changing socioeconomic order.

English

Our India is a vast nation with rich cultural heritage and social diversity. We have been respecting women in the highest form as Goddesses since ages. There have been several laws to protect women from many centuries in this ancient country. Yet our country is still facing difficulties in achieving women safety. And the situation is no different in the rest of the world. The prevailing situation, laws and suggestions to prevent atrocities were discussed. AIM: The current situations of women hardships around the world were mentioned. The current legal situation and recent legal changes were described. The mammoth task ahead of us to achieve the desired social objective of women safety and respect were discussed. MATERIAL & METHODS: various news articles, police journals, legal textbooks and forensic medicine text books. CONCLUSION: Many things were done to prevent sexual assaults on women, yet the true goal is still a mirage. It’s time to look into the issue from its true grass root levels, i.e., from the psycho-social view apart from legal measures, to achieve the much desired objective of prevention of sexual assaults on women.

Police Drugs Training Activities: An International Perspective

The use of drugs and other substances is associated in criminological literature with an increased incidence of delinquency (Loeber, 1988). There is also evidence to suggest that decreased use of drugs can decrease criminality (McMurran, 1996). To this end, the police and other agencies have sought to combat the supply and use of drugs, while traffickers and users have sought to develop increasingly sophisticated methods of avoiding enforcement action (Dom, Oette & White, 1998; Ellis, 1996; Savona, Dom & Ellis, 1993; Dorn, Murji & South, 1991). It is somewhat surprising therefore that relatively little attention has been given to the effectiveness with which police are trained to deal with drug-related offences. In the British context, HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) recently: found that forces and NPT' are weak in conducting the evaluation of training at all levels. (HMIC, 1999: 110) This article presents evidence that this malaise, particularly in regard to drugs training activities, appears to be a global one. The research was carried out by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice The Police Journal, Volume 74 (2001) Research Institute (UNICRI) in 8 countries: Brazil; Canada; Germany; Great Britain; Italy; the Netherlands; Russian Federation; and the USA. The study had two principal aims: first, to outline a 'typical' profile of drugs training courses in each country, and second, to identify whether there was sufficient evaluative evidence to identify the most effective practices in drugs training. What follows should, therefore, be viewed as an international pilot survey of various applications of police training methods used for drugs prevention and/or enforcement.

Improving police response to mentally ill people.

Improving police response to mentally ill people.

Die Polizei - autonomer Akteur oder Herrschaftsinstrument?

Zusammenfassung Fungiert eine Bürokratie als neutrales Durchführungsinstrument oder hat sie sich zu einem politischen Akteur verselbständigt? Diese zentrale Frage der Bürokratietheorie wird anhand der empirischen Analyse einer bürokratischen Institution beantwortet, die zum Kernbereich des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols zählt: die Polizei. Die Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf einen spezifischen Bereich des multifunktionalen polizeilichen Handelns, nämlich Protest policing. In der polizeilichen Kontrolle von Protestierenden berührt die Polizei direkt den politischen Prozeß, hier wird ihre politische Funktion und Position besonders deutlich. Die Analyse von Aussagen leitender Polizeibeamten und Polizeizeitschriften ergeben ein ambivalentes Bild: Auf der einen Seite versteht sich die Polizei als ein neutrales Vollzugsorgan, dessen Handeln vorwiegend legalistisch programmiert ist, auf der anderen Seite versucht sie eigene Handlungsspielräume zu maximieren und in ihrem Sinne zu nutzen.

A prospective study of violence by psychiatric patients after hospital discharge.

The study assessed the frequency of violence by patients two weeks after discharge from a psychiatric hospital and identified characteristics of patients with an increased risk of violence after discharge. A structured form was used to interview patients aged 18 to 59 years in a private university psychiatric hospital. Patients provided self-reports of past violence, and violence while in the hospital was assessed by routine nurse ratings. Patients were telephoned two weeks after discharge to assess violence since discharge. Sixteen of 430 patients who were interviewed by telephone two weeks after discharge reported violence against persons since their discharge. Patients who were violent in the month before admission were nine times more likely to be violent in the two weeks after discharge, compared with patients who were not violent just before admission. Patients with a personality disorder were four times more likely than patients without a personality disorder to be violent after discharge. The targets of violence were often family members or other intimates and often the same persons attacked before hospitalization. Patients who were violent just before admission were more likely to be violent after discharge and to attack the same persons they had attacked in the past. Clinicians should routinely evaluate past violence and work with the patient and potential targets of violence to prevent future violence.

Correction Note

Youth Court: A Guide to the Law and Practice. 2nd edn, by Terrence Moore and Tony Wilkinson. Longman. Pbk, price £35.00(£38.50 inclusive of p&p). In the Police Journal LXVIII No.3, the price was incorrectly stated as £7.

MMPI diagnosis of black psychiatric patients.

Black-white differences in MMPI norms may lead to significant misclassification of black psychiatric patients, which can compound diagnostic errors from other sources. The authors suggest that clinicians who use MMPI results in evaluations of black patients interpret test reports carefully, keeping in mind the possibility of spuriously elevated scores and paying careful attention to areas of potential "false positives."

Marijuana use in schizophrenia: a clear hazard

The use of marijuana as the independent variable produced a serious exacerbation of a psychotic process in four schizophrenic patients whose illness was otherwise well controlled with antipsychotic medication. Each patient served as his own control--the sole substance abused was marijuana and antipsychotic medication intake remained constant. Each time marijuana use at moderate levels began, there was exacerbation and deterioration. The author suggests that marijuana use is a special hazard to schizophrenic patients and that physicians should alert such high-risk patients to the possible untoward interaction between their illness and marijuana.

Prisons, Courts and Terrorism: The American and West German Experience

This is the fifth of a series of articles on Terrorism contributed to The Police Journal by Dr. Wolf. The others appeared in our October, July and January issues of 1976 and the April issue of 1975.

Urban Terrorist Operations

This is the fourth of a series of articles on Terrorism contributed to The Police Journal by Dr. Wolf. The others appeared in our January, April and July issues of this year.