Full Description
Providing a global perspective on police adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores the extent of police organizational and operational changes in a number of countries as diverse as Brazil, China, South Africa, South Korea, the Philippines, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Bringing together a range of international experts, this book reflects on the changes in the broader social environment during the pandemic, examining the contours of police operational and organizational changes across several countries, analyzes the police enforcement of the government COVID-19 rules and regulations, explores the factors related to the COVID-19 effects on police officer wellness and safety, and studies police administrator, police officer, and citizen views about the potential consequences of organizational and operational changes on the interpersonal relations within police agencies and police-community partnerships.
Policing During the COVID-19 Pandemic is essential reading for scholars and practitioners interested in exploring the police organizational adaptations, particularly in the times of emergencies, and the societal, cultural, and legal impacts of such adaptations.
Contents
Introduction
1. Policing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Adaptations, and Consequences
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Marijana Kotlaja, Jon Maskály, and Peter Neyroud
Part 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Governmental Response, and the Police
2. Integrating Three Prongs of Social Control: China's Pandemic Response
Kai Lin, Yuning Wu, and Ivan Sun
3. New Means of Surveillance in the Fight against the Pandemic in Slovakia: Population-Wide Testing and Its Costs
Martin Kovanič
4. Pandemic Policing: The Medicalization and Criminalization of the COVID-19 Crisis
Alexandra Campbell
5. Institutional Isomorphism as a Lens: Understanding the Effects of the Pandemic on Law Enforcement Policies and Practices
Arif Akgul, Avdi S. Avdija, Christian W. Gallagher, Robert Girod, and Kimbra Pinnell
Part 2. Police Operational and Organizational Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
6. Did the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown of 2020 Affect Calls for Service to the Police in Dallas?
Olga Semukhina and Steve Romero
7. Domestic Violence Formal Services Use in Chicago Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Outreach and Arrest Outcomes
Shannon Harper, Angela Gover, and Qing Li
8. Shifts in Variants: How did the First English Lockdown Impact Reports, Responses, and Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence?
Lucy Trafford
9. Blinded by the Night: An Examination of the Veil-of-Darkness within Traffic Enforcement Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anthony G. Vito and Vanessa Woodward Griffin
10. Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cybercrime Units in the United States
Chris Moloney and N. Prabha Unnithan
11. Exploring Perceptions about the Changes in Reactive and Proactive Police Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia
Marijana Kotlaja, Yang Vincent Liu, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskály, Irena Cajner Mraović, Sandra Kobajica, Branko Lobnikar, Krunoslav Borovec, Kaja Prislan Mihelič, and Peter Neyroud
Part 3. Adherence to and Enforcement of the COVID-19 Rules and Regulations
12. Citizen Support for Expanded COVID-19 Police Powers: The Case of St. Petersburg, Russia
Anna Gurinskaya and Mahesh K. Nalla
13. Police Enforcement of COVID-19 Rules in China and South Korea
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Yang Vincent Liu, Marijana Kotlaja, Yuning Wu, Youngje Nam, Ivan Sun, Wook Kang, Jon Maskály, and Peter Neyroud
14. Masking Up for the Benefit of Others: Exploring the Link between Individualistic/Collectivistic Cultural Values and Police Officer Propensity to Obey COVID-19 Rules Off-Duty
Marijana Kotlaja, Yang Vincent Liu, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskály, Alrien Francisco Dausan, John Roch, Ivan Sun, Leandro Ayres Franca, Irena Cajner Mraović, Branko Lobnikar, Sandra Kobajica, Christina Helena Komonski Guterres, Yuning Wu, Kaja Prislan Mihelič, Krunoslav Borovec, Peter Neyroud, and Adri Sauerman
15. COVID-19 Lockdown and Police Misconduct: A Match Made in South Africa
Eva Ott Hill, Kelly Rayner, Adri Sauerman, Emily A. Hernandez, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, and Jon Maskály
Part 4. Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
16. A Comparative Study of Police Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yang Vincent Liu, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Marijana Kotlaja, Peter Neyroud, Krunoslav Borovec, Yuning Wu, Irena Cajner Mraović, Ivan Sun, John Roch, Branko Lobnikar, Jon Maskály, Leandro Ayres Franca, Sandra Kobajica, Adri Sauerman, Alrien Francisco Dausan, Kaja Prislan Mihelič, and Cristina Helena Komonski Guterres
17. Stressors and Police Self-Legitimacy: The Case of Switzerland
Silvia Staubli
18. COVID-19 Induced Stress and Job Attitudes: Perceptions of Police Officers in India
Mahesh K Nalla, Anna Gurinskaya, and Hanif Qureshi
19. Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Make the Police Work More Difficult?
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Marijana Kotlaja, Yang Vincent Liu, Ivan Sun, Irena Cajner Mraović, Peter Neyroud, Yuning Wu, Krunoslav Borovec, Kaja Prislan Mihelič, Alrien Francisco Dausan, Sandra Kobajica, Jon Maskály, and Branko Lobnikar
20. COVID-19 and Trust in the Police
Sean Perry, Catherine Stevens, Joselyne L. Chenane, and Amber Horning-Ruf
