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PJ 82 (2009) 285

Daniel Gilling

For most of the past decade, the police service has been under pressure to improve its performance on crime reduction, having historically been wedded too closely to a ¿detectionist¿ mentality. However, this is now changing, and the service is being asked to raise public confidence.

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PJ 82 (2009) 289

Knowledge Mangement: A Key Ingredient in Tackling Crime
Dr Colin Rogers and James Gravelle

This article considers the way in which the police service in England and Wales and other agencies use intelligence and knowledge to combat the threat of terrorist activity. It focuses upon the application of intelligence and highlights the role of knowledge management, describing the process involved. It also critically analyses how intelligence is captured, stored, processed and shared, and suggests methods of improving the use of such intelligence to provide a more effective and efficient way of tackling terrorism and other serious, organised crime.

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PJ 82 (2009) 297

Police Stop and Search in a Southern English County
Dr Faiza Qureshi

This article looks at recorded Stop and Search activity in a southern English county from April 2003 to March 2006. The discussion explores the distribution of Stops and Searches and arrests made by police officers in the county, followed by an analysis of the demographic characteristics. The analysis of police recorded statistics offers the opportunity to identify patterns and trends in the police tactic which can influence and inform policing policy. It can identify whether the power falls unequally against certain sections of the population and/or whether the patterns are because of the deployment of resources based on the crime control strategy of the southern English police service area. These factors have implications for the service delivery role of police officers in the southern English county.

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PJ 82 (2009) 315

Maturity Levels for Police Oversight Agencies
Petter Gottschalk

Stages-of-growth models have been applied to a variety of organisations to understand organisational evolution over time. In this article, the case of oversight agencies is explored. Some oversight agencies are more advanced than others and have more appropriate procedures, more advanced knowledge, more successful approaches, and more professional performance management. The advancement and sophistication of an oversight organisation may be determined by means of maturity levels for oversight agencies, as discussed in this article.

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PJ 82 (2009) 331

Therapeutic Effectiveness of Self-Efficacy in the Reduction of Police Attitude to Corruption in Nigeria
Amos Oyesoji Aremu, Francis Pakes and Les Johnson

This study investigates the therapeutic effectiveness of selfefficacy as a counselling strategy in tackling the Nigeria Police Force attitude to corruption. Using a quasi-experimental approach, 200 police personnel were purposively and conveniently sampled from two State Police Commands, Ogun and Lagos States. With the aid of an instrument, the Police Attitude to Corruption Scale, administered twice (pre- and post-test), results showed that the self-efficacy counselling strategy positively influences corruption attitudes of the treated group. Gender was found to moderate significantly, with female police officers showing more positive change than their male counterparts. The results suggest the inclusion of selfefficacy counselling as a bottom-up approach strategy in tackling corruption in the Nigerian Police. The implications of this on police transformation, police practice and counselling practice were discussed.

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PJ 82 (2009) 349

The Criminal Responsibility of Children
David Wicks and Damian Carney

The House of Lords (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eatonunder- Heywood, Lord Mance) considered the Appellant¿s appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal (under the name R v T), dismissing his appeal against conviction in the Crown Court of a number of offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

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PJ 82 (2009) 352

The Taking and Retention of Photographs by the Police
David Wicks and Damian Carney

The Court of Appeal (Laws, Dyson LJJ, Lord Collins of Mapesbury) considered the Appellant¿s appeal against the decision of McCombe J (reported at [2008] EWHC Admin 1105) on 22 May 2008 that the Appellant¿s right to respect for his private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had not been infringed by the taking and retention of photographs of him by a Metropolitan Police 'Evidence Gathering Team'.

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PJ 82 (2009) 356

Use of Hearsay Evidence from Absent Witnesses
David Wicks and Damian Carney

The House of Lords (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance) considered the Appellant¿s appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal (under the name R v T), dismissing his appeal against conviction in the Crown Court of a number of offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

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Links to other issues

Volume 74 (2001) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 75 (2002) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 76 (2003) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 77 (2004) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 78 (2005) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 79 (2006) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 80 (2007) :   1   2   3   4

Volume 81 (2008) :   1   2   3

Volume 82 (2009) :   1   4

Volume 83 (2010) :   1   2

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