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Issue 1, 2015 Expand all abstracts
Article

Introduction

Authors Antoinette Verhage, Lieselot Bisschop and Wim Hardyns

Antoinette Verhage

Lieselot Bisschop

Wim Hardyns
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‘Moral’ versus ‘Risk-based’ Policing of Cybercrime

Insights from Police Response to Internet Fraud in Saudi Arabia’s Capital City, Riyadh

Keywords Fraud, internet, cybercrime, policing, risk, morality
Authors Abdullah Faze Algarni
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    This paper contributes to current debates on the policing of Internet fraud by introducing the Saudi Arabian experience. Drawing on field research in the capital city, Riyadh, it explores how this new aspect of policing activity fits in with not only the existing organisational practices, but also the occupational and individual concerns of frontline officers. Moreover, the article considers the implications of the Saudi culture, social norms, and values for police responses to Internet fraud. It is argued that the policing of Internet fraud in Saudi Arabia, and the extent to which it fits with contemporary debates on risk-based policing of cybercrime, can only be understood by examining how new policing modes and cultural traditions merge and integrate to shape police response to this novel criminal phenomenon


Abdullah Faze Algarni
Abdullah Algarni is assistant Professor of Criminology at King Fahad Security College’s Centre for Studies and Research. He obtained a bachelor degree in security sciences and another bachelor degree in the Fundamentals of Islam Religion. He received both his MA and PhD in criminology from the University of Hull in the UK (corresp.: garniaf@kfsc.edu.sa).
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Policing Online Child Sexual Abuse

The British Experience

Keywords online child sexual abuse, online safety, technology, undercover policing, police challenges
Authors Elena Martellozzo
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    Incidents of child sexual abuse (CSA) are frequently documented and have recently attracted intense police, public scrutiny and efforts of social control across the Western world. This paper aims to explore the very concerning issue of online CSA and the way in which the police is responding to this growing problem. It will present some of the challenges the police in the United Kingdom face daily in dealing with the threats to children’s online safety. It argues that although proactive undercover policing has helped police forces to unmask sex offenders1 who predate innocent victims online, the advancement of technology is making the work of police officers more and more challenging. The findings presented have been collected over the last decade (2003-2013) during two exploratory, grounded theory studies, which involved the interviews with 21 police officers and forensic examiners and the observation and analysis of three police operations at the London Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit in London.


Elena Martellozzo
Dr. Elena Martellozzo is a Criminologist at Middlesex University in London and specialises in sex offenders’ use of the internet and online child safety. She offers regular expert advice to the London Metropolitan Police and Italian Police Force (Polizia di Stato and Carabinieri). Her work includes the analysis of online grooming, distribution of indecent images and police practice in this area (corresp.: E.Martellozzo@mdx.ac.uk).
Article

The Italian Police Forces into Neoliberal Frame

An Example of Perpetual Coexistence of Democratic and Authoritarian Practices and of Anamorphosis of Democratic Rules of Law

Keywords italian police forces, anamorphosis of the rules of law, tolerated and intolerable illegalities, discretion of police forces, ignored insecurities
Authors Salvatore Palidda
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    This text proposes a description and analysis of the Italian police forces. The approach adopted specifically regards their social and political construction and therefore their practices within the political organization of society. In order to better analyse the social construction of the Italian police case, I propose regarding the police as one of the several social institutions involved in the continuous experimentation to find a political organization of society. Research into the Italian police forces has been, and is still, very rare. In this paper I refer to research that I have carried out on the Italian police forces since 1990, and also to other documents and knowledge gathered in judicial inquiries and from reliable special reports.


Salvatore Palidda
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Palidda is professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Genova,Italy. He works since 1981 on research with regard to military and police affairs, deviancy and criminality, migrations and recently on ‘ignored insecurities and their victims’. He has a PhD in Sociology and European Studies of the EHESS of Paris-F. Since 1992 he works in Italy on European and national research projects (http://www.disfor.unige.it/old-disfor//images/ CV_Palidda_2015_maggio1.pdf) (corresp.: palidda@unige.it).
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The Significance of Police-Citizen Contacts for Public Trust in the Police in the Netherlands

Keywords trust, police, Integral Safety Monitor
Authors Arie van Sluis and Steven Van de Walle
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    This article explores the development of citizens’ trust in the police in the Netherlands and the relevance of police-citizen contact for trust in the police drawing data from the Dutch Integral Safety Monitor (IVm). This is a huge but underutilized dataset. The findings show that the police in the Netherlands are highly trusted by Dutch citizens. However, their experience with police-citizen contact play an important role in citizens’ trust. The findings of this research indicate not only the relevance of the perspective of procedural justice, but an instrumental and ‘proximity’ perspective as well. The article ends with an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the data in the IVm.


Arie van Sluis
Dr. Arie van Sluis is Assistant Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on police work, the police organization and police governance (corresp.: vansluis@fsw.eur.nl).

Steven Van de Walle
Prof. dr. Steven Van de Walle (vandewalle@fsw.eur.nl) is professor of public management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests include public sector reform, trust in government and citizen attitudes towards public services.
Article

Country Updates

England and Wales

Authors Layla Skinns
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Layla Skinns
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield. Regional editor for England & Wales.

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