Editors
- Kathy Quick, University of Minnesota
- Jean Hartley, The Open University
- Eckhard Schroeter, German University of the Police
- Nick Caveney, Hertfordshire Constabulary
Description
This issue is open for debate articles offering distinctive, provocative and considered comments and arguments, perhaps from the world of practice. These articles are subject to review by the guest editors.
The audience for this themed issue is an interdisciplinary and broadly-defined community of academics and professionals who share an interest in the research of policing, law enforcement, and the provision of public safety from an organizational, managerial, governance and/or public policy analysis perspective.
Articles should explore questions of policing and public management, examining how political governance systems affect the provision of an effective, fair and accountable police service in both its ideal forms and practical manifestations. This includes analysis of how such systems affect the degree of police operational independence, comparative assessment of civilian scrutiny mechanisms, and governance structures of privately-provided police and security services.
Potential topics
- Legitimacy, equity, power, authority, governance and organizational performance in policing
- Organizational functions such as strategic planning, human resource management, budgeting and evaluation, coordination of operations, control and accountability of policing
- Cooperation with public and private partners
- Whether and how policing is value-creating or value-destroying in different settings and social environments
- Changing roles and expectations of police at points of political and societal change and/or stress and austerity
- Comparative analysis of policing values, operations, and consequences in or across different locales
- Political governance systems and their implications for effective, fair and accountable police service
- Police operational independence and comparative analysis of civilian scrutiny of police
- Governance mechanisms of private, non-governmentally provided police and security services