RT Article
T1 Studying policing comparatively: obstacles, preliminary results and promises
JF Policing and society
VO 28
IS 4
SP 385
OP 397
A1 Maillard, Jacques de 1972-
A1 Roché, Sebastian 1961-
A2 Roché, Sebastian 1961-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1801693110
AB Compared to the burgeoning literature on the determinants of penal policies in various Western countries, and compared to criminology in general, the comparative study of policing is an underdeveloped area of research. We acknowledge the practical and theoretical difficulties of such an approach, but we defend its main benefits. Studying policing comparatively allows for a better knowledge of national systems, an understanding of basic concepts such as centralisation, and a stronger recognition of the diverging and converging trends in policing policies at a global level. Traditional comparisons of national models considered policing systems in broad categories (Anglo-Saxon vs. continental European, for example). Here, we suggest rather that models need to be broken down into their elementary components and main organisational features (degree of centralisation, mechanisms of oversight and others).
K1 Policing
K1 Cross national comparison
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Organisation
DO 10.1080/10439463.2016.1240172