Policing and Society
Routledge
United Kingdom
journal
SJR by Edition
Subject Categories
- LawQ1
- Sociology and Political ScienceQ1
Areas: Social Sciences
Most published research topics
Source: OpenAlex
Publication Statistics
Documents per Year
Detailed Information
ISSN
1477-2728, 1043-9463
SJR Best Quartile
Q1
Region
Western Europe
Citations per Document (2 years)
2.95
References per Document
71.06
Coverage
1990-2003, 2005-2026
Scope
Policing & Society is widely acknowledged as the leading international academic journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located. This includes: • Social scientific investigations of police policy and activity • Legal and political analyses of police powers and governance • Management oriented research on aspects of police organisation Space is also devoted to the relationship between what the police do and the policing decisions and functions of communities, private sector organisations and other state agencies. As such, the journal is of vital interest to academics involved in the scholarly study of all of the varied facets of contemporary policing, as well as police and other practitioners involved in social regulation and control.
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