Introduction to Policing
Journal Articles
Widen your reading with these suggested journal articles. Links have been provided for SAGE journal articles, enabling you to access for free. You may have access to non-SAGE journal articles via your university library.
Chan identified the impact on technology on police work, both in organisational terms and in relation to the culture of policing:
Chan, J. (2001) ‘The Technological Game: How Information Technology Is Transforming Police Practice’, Criminal Justice, 1: 139-159.
Barnard-Wills and Wells provide a useful overview of contemporary debates about surveillance in policing in their introduction to a special edition of a journal containing a range of useful articles:
A fascinating insight into ways in which officers respond to being filmed on duty by members of the public:
Sandhu, A. and Haggerty, K. (2016) ‘Policing on Camera’, Theoretical Criminology, 21: 78-95.
The practical and political implications of crime mapping are explored in:
Ratcliffe, J. (2002) ‘Damned if You Don’t, Damned if Your Do: Crime Mapping and Its Implications in the Real World’, Policing and Society, 12: 211-225.