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Below is a list of current unclassified research publications grouped by subject matter. You can also perform a keyword search for finding particular items.

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Alcohol
119 Alcohol and the Police Workplace.
119.1 Alcohol and the Police Workplace - Factors associated with excessive intake.
Armed Robbery
99 Armed Robbery: Final report: Newspaper publicity and bank robberies.
Bibliographies
147.1 Police Literature 2005: An Australian-focused compendium
147.2 Police Literature 2004: An Australian-focused compendium
O 1 Methods in Police Research 2005: An analysis of police specific research journals
Burnout and Engagement
O 2 Burnout and engagement in police recruits: A typology
S 1 Burnout and engagement in probationary police officers: A scoping paper
RP 1 Burnout and engagement in probationary police officer: A methodology
Community Policing
35 Community policing in Australia - An appraisal: Working paper.
Community Surveys
126 Perceptions of police and policing: A review of public and police surveys.
126.1 The Police Role Survey: A tool for comparing public and police perceptions of the police role.
CC 8 Public satisfaction with police contact - Part I: Police-initiated contacts
CC 9 Public satisfaction with police contact - Part II: Self-initiated contacts
Crime
CC 6 Livestock theft in Australasia
Crime Prevention
CI 7 Early childhood crime prevention - Implications for policing
Crime Trends
49 Towards a national strategic crime trend forecasting facility.
73 Data comparability and problems with selected crime statistics
Deinstitutionalisation
93 Deinstitutionalisation of the mentally disabled and its impact on police services: Final report.
Drug Driving
56 Drug driving - Assessment of past and current technical developments and consequent legislative accommodation of roadside, and subsequent, drug driving detection
Drug Law Enforcement
127 Measuring the success of law enforcement agencies in Australia in targeting major drug offenders relative to minor drug offenders.
128 Evaluation of Australian drug anti-trafficking law enforcement.
Electronic Crime
129.1 Minimum provisions for the investigation of computer based offences.
134.1 The Virtual Horizon: Meeting the law enforcement challenges. Developing an Australasian law enforcement strategy for dealing with electronic crime. Scoping Paper.
Electronic Crime Strategy of the Police Commissioners' Conference Electronic Crime Steering Committee 2001 - 2003.
CC 3 The forensic challenges of e-crime
96 Computer Crime: The improvement of investigative skills: Final report: Part one
101 Computer Crime: The improvement of investigative skills: Final report: Part two
Seizing Computers and other Electronic Evidence
Environmental Crime
I 2 21st Century policing - The role of police in the detection, investigation and prosecution of environmental crime
Environmental Scans
133.1 Technology environment scan - A Technology Forum Report
Ethics
125.1 Perceptions of ethical dilemmas. Ethics and policing - Study 1.
125.2 Individual perspectives on police ethics. Ethics and policing - Study 2.
125.3 Practical ethics in the police service. Ethics and policing - Study 3.
I 4 Ensuring ethical standards of research: Key issues for Australasian policing
Forensic Science
41 Coordination of forensic science in Australia: Final report.
145.1 Developing a police perspective and exploring the use of biometrics and other emerging technologies as an investigative tool in identity crime
Futures Studies
103 Toward policing 2000: Final report.
Gambling and Crime
CI 4 Want to make a bet? Gambling and crime in Australasia
Guidelines
132.1 National minimum guidelines for incident management, conflict resolution and use of force.
132.2 National guidelines for incident management, conflict resolution and use of force: 2004
Human Resource Management
CI 8 Workplace bullying: Implications for police organisations
143.1 Understanding voluntary turnover: An examination of resignations in Australasian police organisations
CC 10 Exercise and physical fitness: The impact on work outcomes, cognition and psychological well being for police
I 1 Looking to the future: Implications of emerging trends for police workforce planning
148.1 Australian police workforce planning priority research directions - A scoping paper
Identity Crime
Australasian Identity Crime Policing Strategy
Ready Reference - Australasian Identity Crime Policing Strategy 2003 -2005
Australasian Identity Crime Policing Strategy 2006-2008
Ready Reference - Australasian Identity Crime Policing Strategy 2006-2008
145.2 Review of the legal status and rights of victims of identity theft in Australasia
145.3 Standardisation of definitions of identity crime terms: A step towards consistency
CC 7 Police and Identity Theft Victims - Preventing Futher Victimisation
Mental Illness
I 3 Mental illness in the community - The role of police
Modus Operandi
60 The exchange of modus operandi information.
Neighbourhood Watch
79 Neighbourhood Watch: An information and discussion paper on sustaining the momentum.
One and Two Person Patrols
94 Research on one and two-person patrols: Distinguishing fact from fiction.
104 How police forces protect the single-officer patrol.
105 When do patrol officers encounter resistance?
106 Expectancy of success, anxiety and patrol situation: Key dimensions in assessing attitudes to single-officer patrol.
108 One and two-person patrols: Summary report.
Operation Noah
118 Evaluation of Operation Noah 1992: A quantitative and qualitative study.
Organisational Behaviour Management
120 Improving customer service in the police station through organisational behaviour management.
120.1 Customer Service Workshop: Task Clarification.
Organisational Commitment
122 The development of organisational commitment across the career span of police officers.
122.1 Improving organisational commitment: The police officer's perspective.
122.2 Development of organisational commitment: Pre-recruitment, training and probation.
122.3 The development of organisational commitment: The impact of experience of the police organisation.
122.4 Optimising the organisational commitment of police officers: Background and summary of the research and guidelines for management.
122.5 Measuring morale: A manager's guide to the Job Condition Survey.
Organisational Structure
109 The influence of police specialisation on job satisfaction: A comparison of general duties officers and detectives
109.1 The impact of the redesign of the job of general duties patrol on the motivation, job satisfaction and organisational commitment of patrol officers
Pawnbrokers
131.1 Approaches to pawnbroker and secondhand dealer legislation
Police Management
139.1 Critical behaviours for good police managers
I 5 Future migration and policing: Examining assumptions
Psychological Screening
124 Is the psychological screening of police applicants a realistic goal - The successes and failures of psychological screening.
124.1 Defining the role of the General Duties Constable: A job analysis.
124.2 Determination of a job related test battery for the psychological screening of police applicants.
CI 11 Screening for corruption using standard psychological tests of personality: A review of the research evidence
Psychology and Policing
CI 10 Psychological debriefing in police organisations
Emotional First Aid - Addressing emotional distress: A guide for police
Risk Management
117.1 Police - citizen interactions: Conflict resolution tactics and their influence upon the resistance patrol officers encounter. Risk Management - Study 1.
117.2 Managing the risk of patrol: The influence of anger and assertion in patrol officers upon the level of resistance experienced from citizens. Risk Management - Study 2.
117.3 Police officer behaviour during interactions with citizens: What distinguishes the "skilled" from the "average" officer? Risk Management - Study 3.
117.4 Combatting the risk of patrol: Guidelines for management. Risk Management - Study 4.
142.1 Managing the risk of psychological harm for operational police
CC 5 Issues in civil litigation against police
Supervisory Behaviour
107 Identifying effective supervisory behaviours.
107.1 Supervising for results (Handbook).
107.2 Handbook of effective supervisory behaviour.
107.3 Increasing the use of guidance, monitoring and feedback to improve police supervision.
107.4 Improving police supervision: A Workshop.
Urgent Duty Driving
115 Urgent duty driving by Australian police: Facts and recommendations.
115.1 High speed driving: A handbook for police.
89 Progress report on urgent duty driving high speed pursuits: Offender and pursuit characteristics
Vehicle and Twin Tyre Evaluation
76 An evaluation of the twin tyre concept
Vehicle Stopping Devices
47 Anti-pursuit vehicle stopping devices.
Vehicles
National Specifications for General Duty and High Performance Vehicles
National Specifications for Police Vehicle Signage
National Specifications for a General Duty Police Motorcycle
Victims of Crime
82 The vulnerability of the aged to criminal exploitation: Final report.
92 The incidence of crime victimization among intellectually disabled adults: Final report.
98 Victims of crime: Horror revisited: Towards effective victim assistance by police in major crimes; A case study: Final report
I 6 Fear of crime: The impact of age, victimisation, perceived vulnerability to victimisation and neighbourhood characteristics
Women in Policing
138.1 Educational and professional development of female and male police employees.
138.2 Women in senior police management
138.3 Contemporary issues facing women in policing
CC 11 Barriers and facilitating factors for women in policing: Considerations for making policing an employer of choice




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