Campbell Collaboration systematic reviews and the Journal of Experimental Criminology: Reflections on the last 20 years

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Special Edition on Performance Management

This edition of Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice isdevoted to police performance management. Several of the articlesherein trace the origins of this style of police managementand the influences that have brought it about. Others appraiseits effects on matters as diverse as domestic violence, criminalinvestigation and the closure of police stations. They do so,not only from the perspective of the UK, but also from thoseof France, the United States and elsewhere; police performancemanagement is widespread and so are the issues that it raises. In this editorial     

Editorial

This fourth issue provides both a follow on from the debatesstarted in our first three editions and a specific theme, thepolicing of public disorder. Alongside terrorism, neighbourhoodpolicing and the use of force, we judged as we were planningthe first editions of this new journal that we should tacklefour of the big issues in policing. Unsurprisingly, given thatthey are such big issues, there are some common themes thatrun across all of them. The most substantial of these is accountabilityand oversight, which are covered in several of the articlesin this edition. In each of the previous editorials I have drawn on my own professionalcareer to provide comment and this editorial will be no exception.In the last quarter of century I have, in roles ranging froma     

Special Edition on Organized Crime

This is the first edition of the Oxford Journal of Policingthat we, as General Editors, have entrusted to a guest editor.We have several such future editions planned, because we feelthis is an important way of expanding the number and varietyof voices commentating on policing. This is a key part of themission we have set ourselves—a vigorous debate     

Special Edition on Governance and Policing

This edition has a strong focus on governance and policing.Governance has been interpreted here with a broad meaning. Inthe case of Fletcher and Stenson's article on governance inLondon, it encompasses the whole process of government rangingfrom the Metropolitan Police's relationship with national andlocal government, their ability to control and influence theMetropolitan Police and the consequent complexity. Both thetheme and the article are timely. Not only has the UK Governmentin a Green Paper (Home     

Special Edition on Crime Science

Technology has transformed all our lives and does so ever morerapidly. It was only 20 years ago that the first word-processorappeared at the University where I then worked. Kept in a lockableoffice to which access was carefully controlled, it consistedof a box about the size of a two-drawer filing cabinet, plusscreen and keyboard, and devoured 8-inch floppy discs. We thoughtit was wonderful! Now it is a relic. My mobile phone has morecomputing power than that venerable device! So too in policing, radio technology has transformed the deployabilityof officers; weapons technology has improved their protection;helicopters keep watch from     

Community Policing

I have been involved in trying to deliver effective neighbourhoodpolicing for over 25 years and it has, at times, been a frustratingprofessional challenge. I joined Hampshire Constabulary in 1980as a young history graduate from Oxford University. The ConstabularyI joined was coming to terms with a huge influx of young officersas a result of the Edmund Davies pay awards that had significantlyimproved the pay and conditions of police officers. I founda police force that was in transformation. There were stillmany, particularly in senior management, who had been broughtup in