The complexity of police decisions : a collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium
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- Yinthe Feys (UGent) , Bart Van Thienen, Stijn Van den Bulck, Koen Van Poucke, Rienert Torreele, Anjuli Van Damme, Maria De Sterck, Sylvie Michiels, Peter Muyshondt and Antoinette Verhage (UGent)
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- Street-level police officers are regularly confronted with complex situations and often have to make split-second decisions. Despite the importance of these decisions for procedural justice and police legitimacy, we know little about the factors that impact Belgian police officers' decision-making. This article explores this topic by means of semi-structured interviews (n = 46) in the Belgian local police. We conclude that there is a variety of factors that play a role. These factors can be divided into four groups: characteristics of the police officer, characteristics of the civilian, organizational characteristics, and situational characteristics. The most influential factors are police officers' professional experience, laws and regulations, police officers' personality, one's colleagues and supervisors, and whether or not the civilian is aggressive and known by the police.
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- PROCEDURAL JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, FORCE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8749296
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- Feys, Yinthe, et al. “The Complexity of Police Decisions : A Collaborative Study on Police Decision-Making in Belgium.” POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE, vol. 16, no. 3, 2022, pp. 405–26, doi:10.1093/police/paac030.
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- Feys, Y., Van Thienen, B., Van den Bulck, S., Van Poucke, K., Torreele, R., Van Damme, A., … Verhage, A. (2022). The complexity of police decisions : a collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium. POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE, 16(3), 405–426. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac030
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- Feys, Yinthe, Bart Van Thienen, Stijn Van den Bulck, Koen Van Poucke, Rienert Torreele, Anjuli Van Damme, Maria De Sterck, Sylvie Michiels, Peter Muyshondt, and Antoinette Verhage. 2022. “The Complexity of Police Decisions : A Collaborative Study on Police Decision-Making in Belgium.” POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE 16 (3): 405–26. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac030.
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- Feys, Yinthe, Bart Van Thienen, Stijn Van den Bulck, Koen Van Poucke, Rienert Torreele, Anjuli Van Damme, Maria De Sterck, Sylvie Michiels, Peter Muyshondt, and Antoinette Verhage. 2022. “The Complexity of Police Decisions : A Collaborative Study on Police Decision-Making in Belgium.” POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE 16 (3): 405–426. doi:10.1093/police/paac030.
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- 1.Feys Y, Van Thienen B, Van den Bulck S, Van Poucke K, Torreele R, Van Damme A, et al. The complexity of police decisions : a collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium. POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE. 2022;16(3):405–26.
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- [1]Y. Feys et al., “The complexity of police decisions : a collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium,” POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 405–426, 2022.
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author = {{Feys, Yinthe and Van Thienen, Bart and Van den Bulck, Stijn and Van Poucke, Koen and Torreele, Rienert and Van Damme, Anjuli and De Sterck, Maria and Michiels, Sylvie and Muyshondt, Peter and Verhage, Antoinette}},
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journal = {{POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE}},
keywords = {{PROCEDURAL JUSTICE,LEGITIMACY,FORCE}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
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title = {{The complexity of police decisions : a collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac030}},
volume = {{16}},
year = {{2022}},
}
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