Policing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA. She is the Co-Editor of Policing: An International Journal. She is past Chair of the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology, and past Chair of the International Division, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Her co-authored and co-edited books on policing include: Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges, Police Code of Silence in the Times of Change, Police Integrity in South Africa, Exploring Police Integrity, Police Integrity across the World, Enhancing Police Integrity, Fallen Blue Knights, and The Contours of Police Integrity. Marijana Kotlaja is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. She is involved in evaluation research projects with many organizations, specifically focused on crime and place, and juvenile delinquency. She has led multiple international data collection efforts and has extensive knowledge of advanced quantitative methodology, including structural equation modeling, Bayesian analysis, and hierarchical linear models. She is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Division of International Criminology (American Society of Criminology), as well as the Editor of Around the Globe for the Criminologist. Jon Maskály is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Dakota, USA. He won (with co-authors) the 2016 William L. Simon Outstanding Paper award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. His primary research interests revolve around issues in policing, notably police-community relations, police integrity, and police accountability. He has worked as a subject matter expert in several police reform projects around the nation. He has secured multiple contracts with police organizations to enhance their ability to make data-driven decisions. Peter Neyroud is Associate Professor in Evidence-Based Policing in the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the General Editor of the Oxford Journal Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. He set up and ran the UK National Policing Improvement Agency. He was commissioned by the UK Home Secretary to carry out a fundamental "Review of Police Leadership and Training," which led to the establishment of the National "College of Policing." He is the Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group.

Introduction 1. Policing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Adaptations, and Consequences Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, 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 Kovanic 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 Ivkovic, Jon Maskály, Irena Cajner Mraovic, Sandra Kobajica, Branko Lobnikar, Krunoslav Borovec, Kaja Prislan Mihelic, 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 Ivkovic, 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 Ivkovic, Jon Maskály, Alrien Francisco Dausan, John Roch, Ivan Sun, Leandro Ayres Franca, Irena Cajner Mraovic, Branko Lobnikar, Sandra Kobajica, Christina Helena Komonski Guterres, Yuning Wu, Kaja Prislan Mihelic, 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 Ivkovic, 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 Ivkovic, Marijana Kotlaja, Peter Neyroud, Krunoslav Borovec, Yuning Wu, Irena Cajner Mraovic, Ivan Sun, John Roch, Branko Lobnikar, Jon Maskály, Leandro Ayres Franca, Sandra Kobajica, Adri Sauerman, Alrien Francisco Dausan, Kaja Prislan Mihelic, 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 Ivkovic, Marijana Kotlaja, Yang Vincent Liu, Ivan Sun, Irena Cajner Mraovic, Peter Neyroud, Yuning Wu, Krunoslav Borovec, Kaja Prislan Mihelic, 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