What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions

This article, which consists of three systematic reviews covering the period 1992–2023, focuses on why scholarly knowledge of effective police leadership is limited. The literature on police leadership amounts to just 197 peer-reviewed journal articles; most of these are leader-centric and tend to u...

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Authors: Filstad, Cathrine (Author) ; Karp, Tom (Author) ; Rød, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Policing and society
Year: 2025, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 280-293
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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