Evidence-Based Policing Can Help Ensure Practices Are Rooted in Research Since the 2020 murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd brought nationwide calls for change amid concerns that prevailing practices were not grounded in evidence and created harm, policing has been in turmoil. Implementation science (IS) involves integrating effective and evidence-based innovations into routine practice […]
Research has documented the many ways individuals’ environments (e.g., community, neighborhood) affect their health. In a new study on gun ownership, researchers surveyed young African American men who lived in high-crime, high-violence cities to better understand their perception of their environment and its impact on community violence. Respondents described their cities negatively, with few opportunities […]
Policing is a profession that features shift work and long hours, both of which can lead to insufficient sleep and fatigue. Because of the unique demands of the job, fatigue raises risks related to decision making, impulse control, driving, and other aspects of work. In a new study, researchers tested the effect of a fatigue-management […]
Authors Highlight Need for Broad Range of Approaches to Prevent, Reduce Consequences Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) significantly affect lifelong health and well-being. Despite extensive research on the topic, a wide-reaching understanding of ACEs’ multifaceted impacts remains unrealized. In a new study, researchers synthesized evidence from nearly 100 meta-analyses to provide a comprehensive view of ACEs’ […]
Considering Crime Reporting Sensitivity Bias Key to Turnaround In the last 30 years, community-oriented policing has been a key innovation in policing. But while this proactive approach boosts citizens’ evaluations of police, evidence is sparse that it reduces crime. In a new study, researchers suggest that this conclusion is likely flawed because of crime reporting […]
How do female police officers, who are often excluded from the traditional masculine occupational culture of policing, feel about their working environment and how the public perceives them? A new study used survey data from officers in a large, urban police department to test for gender differences in two aspects of the external environment that […]
In 2020, the United States saw the largest one-year increase in homicides since 1960. In a new study, researchers examined disparities in race and ethnicity for deaths by firearm homicides from 2018 to 2022, before, during, and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that deaths by firearm homicide were concentrated among Black […]
Studies of Incarcerated Women, Perinatal Women Yield Insights that Can Inform Treatment Exposure to trauma is associated with many negative outcomes, especially for at-risk populations like incarcerated women and perinatal women. The Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) is a common measure of exposure to trauma, but no published studies have validated the instrument with these two […]
Policing is a profession that features shift work and long hours, both of which can lead to insufficient sleep and fatigue. Because of the unique demands of the job, fatigue raises risks related to decision making, impulse control, driving, and other aspects of work. In a new study, researchers tested the effect of a fatigue-management […]
Children’s Well-Being, Families’ Material Hardship, Social Support Affected Criminal legal system contact has emerged as a key event for understanding family life, childhood well-being, and patterns of inequality. Scholars have found many problems for families that are linked to mass criminalization and effects tend to be concentrated among the most marginalized segments of society. But […]