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Record W4408576815 · doi:10.1177/07349149241308567

Policing and Public Administration: A Systematic Review and a Research Agenda

2025· review· en· W4408576815 on OpenAlex
Étienne Charbonneau, Galia Cohen, Brigitte Poirier

Why this work is in the frame

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Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Administration Quarterly · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolicing Practices and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsÉcole Nationale d'Administration Publique
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic administrationPolitical scienceAdministration (probate law)SociologyLaw

Abstract

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Following the Spring of 2020, there has been a notable surge in attention toward issues related to policing and instances of police misconduct. This review takes stock of the policing literature in Public Administration field between 2017 and 2023. A total of 202 empirical articles on policing were identified in Public Administration. Findings indicate that in Public Administration, policing studies are in majority focused on the management of police organizations, rather than on the police-citizen nexus or police behavior. There has not been an important shift in themes and subthemes covered by articles since 2020. Policing articles in Public Administration are mostly cross-sectional, theoretically scattered, methodologically balanced, and often include practical recommendations, albeit vague ones. We offer a research agenda for policing and public administration scholars.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.887
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.221
GPT teacher head0.507
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it