This page will provide you with some tips and tricks to make your research a breeze! If you still can't find what you need, please don't hesitate to contact the library! You can find our contact information and more on the Get Help page.
To get you started, here are some general search strategies:
Keyword Strategies
Use these keywords in a general search in any one of our recommended databases or inside DragonQuest:
- Police Legitimacy
- Procedural Justice
- Community Policing
- Fragmentation AND Policing
- Accreditation Standards for Law Enforcement
- Defunding AND Police
- Quasi-Military Police
- Criminalistics
- Crisis Intervention
- De-escalation AND Policing
- Police Corruption
- Police Brutality
- Police Recruitment
- American Policing
- Field Operations
Subject Strategies
Searching for results by subject heading, rather than by keywords, can help you focus your search in new directions. Consider these subject search options:
- Police field training
- Crime analysis
- Police corruption
- Policing strategies
- Crisis intervention
- Crime strategies
- Implicit bias
- Police unions
The following image shows you how to change your search to a subject search by using the dropdown menu inside DragonQuest:
Research Starters
Need some extra guidance? Try a Research Starter:
What is a Research Starter?
Research Starters are encyclopedia entries, so they are more of an "idea gathering" mechanism than a scholarly source to support your stance on an issue. They provide you with background information on a broad topic and highlight keywords you can use and/or links to source material to get you started on your research.
Narrowing DragonQuest Search Results
If you'd like to know how to narrow down your DragonQuest list to only full text, peer reviewed, or specific types of resources, we recommend the following tutorial:
DragonQuest Advanced SearchingAdvanced search tab of the DragonQuest tutorial which discusses methods for focusing a search to a more specific type of item.
Recommended Reading
Looking for an eBook on topics related to this course? We recommend the following:
Policing in the era of AI and smart societies by Hamid Jahankhani; Babak Akghar; Peter Cochrane; Mohammad DastbazISBN: 9783030506131
Publication Date: 2020
Foreword; Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew CBE QC.- Rethinking Criminal Justice in Cyberspace: The EU E-evidence framework as a new model of cross-border cooperation in criminal matters; O. Sallavaci.- Policing in the era of AI and Smart Societies: austerity; legitimacy and blurring the line of consent; M. Manning, S.Agnew.- Behavioral Analytics; A Preventative Means for the Future of Policing; A. Daneshkhah et al.- Securing Transparency and Governance of Organ Supply Chain Through Blockchain; N. Chavez et al.- IoT and cloud forensic investigation guidelines; I. Mitchell et al.- Algorithms can predict domestic abuse, but should we let them?; M. Bland.- Tackling teen sexting -- policing challenges when society and technology outpace legislation; E. Bond, A. Phippen.- Image Recognition in Child Sexual Exploitation Material -- Capabilities, Ethics and Rights; A. Phippen, E. Bond.- Predictive policing in 2025: A scenario; K. Macnish et al.- Patterns in Policing; P. Cochrane, M.P. Pfeiffer.- Proposed Forensic Guidelines for the Investigation of Fake News; N. Omezi, H. Jahankhani.- Current Challenges of Modern-Day Domestic Abuse; J. Mayhew, H. Jahankhani.
Exploring Policing, Crime and Society by Jason L. PowellISBN: 9781619420014
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the 'police', one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an integral part of the criminal justice system. On completion of the book, students will have knowledge of the relationship between police, crime and society; the workings, power and discretion of the police; the relationship between policing, social policy and political ideologies. The book is a brief but critical introduction to the main issues facing police officers in the 21st Century.
Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing by Lorraine Mazerolle; Elise Sargeant; Adrian Cherney; Sarah Bennett; Kristina Murphy; Emma Antrobus; Peter MartinISBN: 9783319045436
Publication Date: 2014-07-08
This brief focuses on the "doing" of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including: · problem-oriented policing · patrol · restorative justice · reassurance policing · and community policing. Through these examples, the authors also examine some of the barriers for implementing procedurally just ways of interacting with citizens, and offer practical suggestions for reform. This work will be of interest for researchers in criminology and criminal justice focused on policing as well as policymakers.
Professionalizing the police : the unfulfilled promise of police training by Nigel FieldingISBN: 9780192549730
Publication Date: 2018
Summary: The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one of contemporary policing's harshest tests. Police training has reflected these ambiguities and uncertainties. The ground its curriculum covers, pedagogy it employs, and structures through which it operates have been contested, troublesome to manage, and blamed for policing's failures. Behind these frictions lie large issues of governance, policing's place in society, and what it means to be professional. Policing's contemporary rhetoric of managerialism, consumer focus, and technology is an expression of unreconstructed modernism. Late modernity is marked by uncertainty and scepticism. In 'post-truth' times, professionalism must accommodate ambiguities of class, ethnicity, and sexuality. The police languish as last believers in a monochrome vision of society while the norms that make for contemporary sociality have moved on to a multiplex of diversities that harbour new extremes both of tolerance and intolerance. True professionalism alerts practitioners to other ways of delivering social control and just societies: empowering citizens and encouraging autonomy; supporting new modes of social relationships and lifestyle; fitting provision to cases; pluralizing services. This yardstick is used to assess and challenge the recruit and in-service curriculum and to tease out the options around which professionalism can be configured and embedded such that it plays its part in a humane, coherent, and accountable framework of police governance.
Policing in the era of AI and smart societies by 
Exploring Policing, Crime and Society by 
Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing by 
Professionalizing the police : the unfulfilled promise of police training by 