Abstract
The challenges of bringing research to practice, and connecting practitioners and researchers to form effective working relationships is not unique to policing. The fields of medicine, public health, nursing, education, business, and others all wrestle with this issue. These fields have subsequently developed a diffuse body of research, theory, and practical insight that is informative to the policing context. This chapter provides a discussion on the evolution of the role of research in policing, along with the challenges. These issues are then connected to the broader body of knowledge on this topic from other fields.
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Under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the National Institute of Justice precursor was named the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (NILECJ). The NILECJ was later renamed the NIJ, which accompanied other organizational changes in the Department of Justice. However, the mission of representing the federal government’s conduit for federal funding of criminology and criminal justice research remained the same (Petersilia 1987). As a result, we use NIJ for simplicity to cover both entities.
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It is important to acknowledge here that this discussion is for an overall review on the evolution of policing research, and its connection to the law enforcement practitioner community, and as such does not cover the immense amount of empirical and theoretical work that has been accomplished over the past four decades.
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See Bradley and Nixon (2010), Stephens (2010), and Bueermann (2012) for similar insight from current and former law enforcement leaders in the United States and Australia.
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Both Alpert and Rojek are long-standing members of the RAC.
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The United Kingdom Research Partnership Investment Fund is designed to support investment in higher education research facilities. The fund was originally set up in 2012 (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/howfundr/ukrpif/). The Police Journal published by Vathek Press has renamed the Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles to reflect the changing landscape within which policing operates. Additionally, Oxford University sponsors Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, a journal directed at senior police officers, researchers, policy makers and academics and published comments and analysis of research on current policy and practice.
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Robinette v Greene County, TN. No. 08-CV-772, Circuit Court, Third Judicial District, Deposition of Sheriff Steve Burns, p. 23.
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See Estabrook et al. (2008) for a discussion on the conceptual evolution of the knowledge utilization field.
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Rojek, J., Martin, P., Alpert, G.P. (2015). Research Partnerships as a Form of Knowledge Translation. In: Developing and Maintaining Police-Researcher Partnerships to Facilitate Research Use. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2056-3_1
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