Policing Research and the Rise of the 'Evidence-Base': Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and 'What Works'

摘要: Despite the pitfalls identified in previous critiques of evidence-based practice movement education, health, medicine and social care, recent years have witnessed its spread to realm policing. This article considers rise policy as a dominant discourse policing UK, implications this has for scientists conducting research area, police officers staff. Social with must consider organisational factors impacting upon work, well wider political agendas which constrain it – case, ways adoption related ‘gold standard’ used evaluate act ‘technology power’ shape nature policing/research. The discussion draws on semi-structured interviews conducted staff from forces England.