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Van Praet, S. (2022), “Police selectivity “on demand”: the role of organisational justice in promoting procedural justice”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 194-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-01-2021-0004
procedural justice, action research, organisational justice, police selectivity, reactive policing
Purpose This paper presents the results of an action research with a Brussels’ police force. This research aimed to identify…
Read moreVarghese, A. (2022), “Police interactions in post-colonial India: how particularistic accountability, legitimacy and tolerated illegality condition everyday policing in Delhi and Kerala”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 162-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0057
accountability, everyday, India, Legitimacy, police, power, tolerated illegality
Purpose The paper aims to relocate discussions on police stops and police interactions from the Anglophone world to the particularistic…
Read moreBrauer, E., Dangelmaier, T. and Hunold, D. (2022), ““Police spatial knowledge” – Aspects of spatial constitutions by the police”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0053
class, ethnicity, Gender, narratives, police knowledge, space
Purpose The article presents research results of an ethnographic survey within the German police. The focus is on practices of…
Read morendy, R. (2022), “Suspicious minds and suspicioning: constructing suspicion during policework”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 132-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0056
New Zealand, police practice, policing, South Australia, stop and search, suspicion
Purpose This article explores officer use of suspicion before informal police-citizen encounters as a method to further understand police officer…
Read moreAden, H., Bosch, A., Fährmann, J. and Thurn, R. (2022), “Police stops in Germany – between legal rules and informal practices”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 116-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-03-2021-0016
discrimination, Ethnography, Germany, Human rights, legality, micro-politics, police stops
Purpose This paper analyzes micro-political strategies that police officers use during police stops, mostly based on their professional or personal…
Read moreSaudelli, I., De Kimpe, S. and Christiaens, J. (2022), “Police stops, suspicion and the influence of police department cultures: a look into the Belgian context”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 98-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-02-2021-0008
Ethnography, police department culture, police stops, suspicion
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how suspicion that leads to a police stop is developed by…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa (2016). Perceptions of Procedural Justice among Young People: Narratives of Fair Treatment in Young People’s Stories of Police and Security Guard Interventions. British Journal of Criminology, 56: 1253–1271. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv102
procedural justice, Trust, youth
This article examines how young people conceptualize typical narratives of fair and unfair treatment by police and security guards. It…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa (2018). Young people’s conceptions of trust and confidence in the crime control system: Differences between public and private policing. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18, 156–172. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895817700695
procedural justice, focus groups, police, private security guards, Trust, youth
Private security increasingly participates in policing, thus changing the field of policing. However, there is a lack of research on…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa, Haller, Mie Birk, Solhjell, Randi, Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne, Kolind, Torsten, Hunt, Geoffrey & Burcar Alm, Veronika (2021). Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth’s descriptions of police relations. Policing and Society, 31:4, 386-401, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1747462
procedural justice, ethnic minorities, Nordic countries, youth
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic…
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