Twenty-five years on: A bibliographic analysis of articles appearing in the International Journal of Police Science & Management
| Published date | 01 December 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241298793 |
| Author | Jennifer Brown,Ian McKenzie |
| Date | 01 December 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Special Issue: 25th Anniversary |
Twenty-five years on: A bibliographic
analysis of articles appearing in the
International Journal of Police
Science & Management
Jennifer Brown
The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Ian McKenzie
University of Portsmouth, UK
Abstract
From a corpus of 678 articles appearing in the International Journal of Police Science & Management representing 25 years of
publication, This article reviews the achievements of the Journal’s founding principles. Aiming to be multidisciplinary,
international and collaborative, with particular emphasis on diversity and operational issues, the Journal also sought to
present research informing both policy and practice. A bibliographic analysis revealed 45 police jurisdictions, 41 cognate
disciplines and 150 topics covered. The majority of articles (79%) were empirical papers of which 69% derived from pri-
mary, 26% secondary and 5% mixed research designs. Around one-fifth of papers related to police management issues,
one-third to police deployments and policing practices, and one in ten papers were devoted to accountability and mis-
conduct. Diversity featured in about one-third of papers with gender being the most referred to, whereas disability, reli-
gion and sexuality were barely referenced. The majority of articles (77%) were by those from academic institutions with
relatively few police/academic collaborating authors. The article concludes with a brief assessment and discussion of the
future direction of policing research.
Submitted 18 Sep 2023, accepted 25 Jan 2024
Introduction
It has been 25 years since the inception of the International
Journal of Police Science & Management (IJSPM), so this
celebratory Special Issue seems a good opportunity to
reflect on the degree to which the articles appearing in the
Journal have fulfilled the founding (and current) aspirations
of the Editors. In 1998 when IJPSM was founded, the
world had its share of tragedies, such as the downing of Pan
Am flight 103 at Lockerbie and triumphs such as the fall of
the Berlin Wall marking the end of the Cold War. Policing
in England and Wales wasunder scrutiny because of its cata-
strophichandling of the football fansat Hillsborough and also
in Australia with the publication of the Wood Commission
report (Wood, 1997) into misconduct in the New South
Wales Police,while in America police shootingof Black citi-
zens was a cause of concern (Geller and Scott, 1992).
In the intervening years, some policing issues remain
ongoing, like the poor investigation and prosecution of
violent and sexual crimes against women (Brown, 2022)
and continued examples of police misconduct (Porter,
2021). New ones have emerged such as the proliferation
of crime in the cyberspace (Hoar, 2005), the invasive
impact of social media (Walsh and O’Connor, 2019) and
defunding debates in the United States (US) (Fegley and
Murtazashvili, 2023) and their reverberations internation-
ally (Corley and Reber, 2023). As then, inflation at the
Corresponding author:
Jennifer Brown, Mannheim Centre, Department of Social Policy, The
London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street,
London, UK.
Email: j.brown5@lse.ac.uk
Special Issue: 25th Anniversary
International Journal of
Police Science & Management
2024, Vol. 26(4) 400–413
© The Author(s) 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/14613557241298793
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