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Police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing in the UK: providing a contextual understanding through qualitative interviews

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posted on 2016-09-06, 13:12 authored by Karen Lumsden
This paper provides a contextual understanding of police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing (EBP) in England through presentation of findings from qualitative interviews. It focuses on: 1) how officers defined the concept of EBP; 2) the context driving these definitions (including political pressures, professionalisation and the rise of police-academic collaborations); 3) what research means to police officers in terms of ‘hierarchies’ and a ‘ladder of evidence’ and 4) how success and ‘what works’ is measured (including academic versus practitioner definitions). It is argued that future studies of police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and EBP are crucial as receptivity influences the application of research and willingness to incorporate an evidence-base into policing practice. Data is presented from 15 semi-structured interviews with police officers and civilian staff from police forces in England.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice

Volume

iFirst

Citation

LUMSDEN, K., 2016. Police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing in the UK: providing a contextual understanding through qualitative interviews. Policing, 11 (2), pp. 157-167.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP) / © The Author.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-08-15

Publication date

2016-09-02

Notes

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Policing following peer review. The version of record LUMSDEN, K., 2016. Police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing in the UK: providing a contextual understanding through qualitative interviews. Policing, 11 (2), pp. 157-167 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw036.

ISSN

1752-4520

Language

  • en

Location

United Kingdom