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Abstract
This review represents the sixth in an annual special feature in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. It provides a cross‐sectional analysis of the police literature for 2005, with a focus on the substantive categories, publication medium, and methodological typology of such literature. This paper also comments on reviews of years past, using the findings of Beckman, Lum, Wyckoff, and Larsen‐Vanderwall (2003) as a basis for the discussion of the patterns of the aforementioned characteristics over time. A topically organized bibliography of the 2005 police literature reviewed is also provided.
Acknowledgements
This research was conducted by the Police Research Group at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, a graduate student organization under the direction of Professors David Weisburd and Jean McGloin. The authors would like to thank Professors Weisburd and McGloin for their expert guidance.
Notes
1. Beckman, K., Lum, C., Wyckoff, L., & Larsen‐Vanderwall, K. (2003). Trends in police research: A cross‐sectional analysis of the 2000 literature. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 4(1), 79–96.
2. Readers should note that the review is only as complete as the database holdings as of 15 September 2007.
3. See Varriale, J.A., Gibbs, J.C., Ahlin, E.M., Gugino, M.R., & Na, C. (2007). Trends in police research: A cross‐sectional analysis of the 2004 literature. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 8(5), 461–485.
4. References are listed in alphabetical order by subcategory.