Publication Cover
Policing and Society
An International Journal of Research and Policy
Volume 34, 2024 - Issue 7
524
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Policing universities: exploring the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by private campus security officers

ORCID Icon, , &
Pages 658-673 | Received 30 Jun 2023, Accepted 02 Feb 2024, Published online: 16 Feb 2024

References

  • Adams, K., and Jennison, V., 2007. What we do not know about police use of Tasers™. Policing: An international journal of police strategies & management, 30 (3), 447–465. doi:10.1108/13639510710778831.
  • Ariel, Barak, Newton, Mark, Mcewan, Lorna, Ashbridge, Garry A., Weinborn, Cristobal and Sabo Brants, Hagit, 2019. Reducing Assaults Against Staff Using Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) in Railway Stations. Criminal Justice Review, 44 (1), 76–93.
  • Backman, C., and Löfstrand, C.H., 2022. Representations of policing problems and body-worn cameras in existing research. International criminal justice review, 32 (3), 270–290. doi:10.1177/10575677211020813.
  • Beales, N., and Marsh, L., 2016. On body cameras in prison. The New Zealand corrections journal, 4 (1), 1–6.
  • Braun, V., and Clarke, V., 2006. Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative research in psychology, 3 (2), 77–101. doi:10.1191/1478088706qp063oa.
  • Bruton, L., et al., 2022. The impact of body-worn cameras on the incidence of occupational violence towards paramedics: a systematic review. Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, 14 (2), 133–142. doi:10.1108/JACPR-08-2021-0630.
  • Button, M., 2016. Security officers and policing: powers, culture and control in the governance of private space. London: Routledge.
  • Chan, J.B., 2001. The technological game. Criminal justice, 1 (2), 139–159. doi:10.1177/1466802501001002001.
  • Ellis, T., et al., 2019. The use of body worn video cameras on mental health wards: results and implications from a pilot study. Mental health in family medicine, 15 (3), 859–868.
  • Ferrandino, J., 2012. The comparative technical efficiency of Florida campus police departments. Criminal justice review, 37 (3), 301–318. doi:10.1177/0734016812442684.
  • Gaub, J.E., 2022. Assessing the utility of body-worn cameras for collegiate police agencies. Police quarterly, 25 (1), 118–148. doi:10.1177/10986111211037586.
  • Hardy et al, 2017. The feasibility of using body worn cameras in an inpatient mental health setting. Mental health in family medicine, 13, 393–400.
  • Home Office, 2021. Police workforce England and Wales, as at 30 September 2020. London: Home Office. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/956449/police-workforce-sep20-hosb0321.pdf [Accessed 13 December 2022].
  • Hutchby, I., 2001. Technologies, texts and affordances. Sociology, 35 (2), 441–456. doi:10.1177/S0038038501000219.
  • Jacobsen, J.K., 2015. Policing the ivory tower: students’ perceptions of the legitimacy of campus police officers. Deviant behavior, 36 (4), 310–329. doi:10.1080/01639625.2014.935653.
  • Kendall-Raynor, P., 2018. Paramedics to wear cameras after rise in physical assaults. Emergency nurse, 26 (4), 6. doi:10.7748/en.26.4.6.s2.
  • Koper, C.S., et al., 2015. Realizing the potential of technology in policing: A multisite study of the social, organizational, and behavioral aspects of implementing police technologies. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
  • Koper, C.S., Lum, C., and Willis, J.J., 2014. Optimizing the use of technology in policing: Results and implications from a multi-site study of the social, organizational, and behavioral aspects of implementing police technologies. Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice, 8, 212–221. doi:10.1093/police/pau015.
  • Lawshe, N.L., et al., 2019. Behind the lens: police attitudes toward body-worn cameras and organizational justice. Journal of crime and justice, 42 (1), 78–97. doi:10.1080/0735648X.2018.1554839.
  • Löfstrand, C.H., and Backman, C., 2022. Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry. Qualitative research in organizations and management: An international journal, 17 (5), 64–77. doi:10.1108/QROM-01-2022-2285.
  • Lum, C., et al., 2019. Research on body-worn cameras. Criminology & public policy, 18 (1), 93–118. doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12412.
  • Lum, C., et al., 2020. Body-worn cameras’ effects on police officers and citizen behavior: A systematic review. Campbell systematic reviews, 16 (3), e1112. doi:10.1002/cl2.1112.
  • Lum, C., Koper, C.S., and Willis, J.J., 2017. Understanding the limits of technology's impacts on policing. Police quarterly, 20, 135–163. doi:10.1177/1098611116667279.
  • Malm, A., 2019. Promise of police body-worn cameras. Criminology & public policy, 18, 119–130. doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12420.
  • Manning, P.K., 2008. The technology of policing: crime mapping, information technology, and the rationality of crime control. New York: New York University Press.
  • Manning, P.K., 2014. Information technology and police work. Encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice, 2501–2513. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_254.
  • Manzo, J., 2010. How private security officers perceive themselves relative to police. Security journal, 23 (3), 192–205. doi:10.1057/sj.2008.16.
  • Oliveira, T., and Martins, M.F., 2011. Literature review of information technology adoption models at firm level. Electronic journal of information systems evaluation, 14 (1), 110–121.
  • Paoline, E., and Sloan, J., 2003. Variability in the organizational structure of contemporary campus law enforcement agencies: A national-level analysis. Policing: An international journal of police strategies and management, 26, 612–639. doi:10.1108/13639510310503541.
  • Patten, R., et al., 2016. The continued marginalization of campus police. Policing, 39, 566–583. doi:10.1108/PIJPSM-04-2016-0055.
  • Peak, K., Barthe, E., and Garcia, A., 2008. Campus policing in America: A twenty-year perspective. Police quarterly, 11 (2), 239–260. doi:10.1177/1098611107306840.
  • Pelfrey Jr, W.V., and Keener, S., 2016. Police body worn cameras: A mixed method approach assessing perceptions of efficacy. Policing: An international journal of police strategies & management, 39 (3), 491–506. doi:10.1108/PIJPSM-02-2016-0019.
  • Pelfrey Jr, W.V., and Keener, S., 2018. Body-worn cameras and officer perceptions: A mixed-method pretest posttest of patrol officers and supervisors. Journal of crime and justice, 41 (5), 535–552. doi:10.1080/0735648X.2018.1479287.
  • Perez, N.M., and Bromley, M., 2015. Comparing campus and city police human resource and select community outreach policies and practices: An update. Policing: An international journal of police strategies & management, 38 (4), 664–674. doi:10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2015-0084.
  • Rigakos, G., 2002. The new parapolice: Risk markets and commodified social control. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Seawright, J., and Gerring, J., 2008. Case Selection techniques in case study research: A menu of qualitative and quantitative options. Political research quarterly, 61 (2), 294–308. doi:10.1177/1065912907313077.
  • Security industry authority, 2020. FOI release: Number of SIA licensed operatives by region. London: SIA. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-sia-licensed-operatives-by-region [Accessed 13 December 2022].
  • Senarathna, I., et al., 2014. The influence of organisation culture on E-commerce adoption. Industrial management & data systems, 114 (7), 1007–1021. doi:10.1108/IMDS-03-2014-0076.
  • Singh, A.M., and Kempa, M., 2007. Reflections on the study of private policing cultures: Early leads and key themes. Sociology of crime, Law and deviance, 8, 297–320.
  • Sloan, J., Lanier, M., and Beer, D., 2000. Policing the contemporary university campus: Challenging traditional organizational models. Journal of security administration, 23, 1–20.
  • Sydes, M., Dodd, S., and Antrobus, E., 2022. Body cameras behind bars: Exploring correctional officers’ feelings of safety with body-worn cameras. Criminology & criminal justice, 22 (2), 323–342. doi:10.1177/1748895820959125.
  • Taylor, E., 2018. Recent developments in surveillance: An overview of body-worn cameras in schools. In: J. Deakin, E. Taylor, and A. Kupchik, eds. The palgrave international handbook of school discipline, surveillance, and social control. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 371–388.
  • Terpstra, J., 2016. Occupational culture of private security officers in The Netherlands – comparison with police officers’ culture. Policing and society, 26 (1), 77–96. doi:10.1080/10439463.2014.942843.
  • Thumala, A., Goold, B., and Loader, I., 2011. A tainted trade? moral ambivalence and legitimation work in the private security Industry1. The British journal of sociology, 62 (2), 283–303. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01365.x.
  • Todak, N., and Gaub, J.E., 2020. Predictors of police body-worn camera acceptance: Digging deeper into officers’ perceptions. Policing: An international journal, 43 (2), 299–313.
  • Van Steden, R., and De Waard, J., 2013. ‘Acting like chameleons’: On the McDonaldization of private security. Security journal, 26 (3), 294–309. doi:10.1057/sj.2013.18.
  • Van Steden, R., Van Der Wal, Z., and Lasthuizen, K., 2015. Overlapping values, mutual prejudices: Empirical research into the ethos of police officers and private security guards. Administration & Society, 47 (3), 220–243. doi:10.1177/0095399713509530.
  • Wakefield, A., 2008. Private policing: a view from the mall. Public administration, 86 (3), 659–678. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.00750.x.
  • Wang, S., and Feeney, M.K., 2016. Determinants of information and communication technology adoption in municipalities. The American review of public administration, 46 (3), 292–313. doi:10.1177/0275074014553462.
  • White, M.D., and Malm, A., 2020. Cops, cameras, and crisis: The potential and the perils of police body-worn cameras. New York: NYU Press.
  • Williams, B.N., et al., 2016. The co-production of campus safety and security: a case study at the University of Georgia. International review of administrative sciences, 82 (1), 110–130. doi:10.1177/0020852315573157.
  • Williams Jr, M.C., et al., 2021. Body-worn cameras in policing: Benefits and costs, Working paper no 28622. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Available from: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28622/w28622.pdf [Accessed 13 September 2023].
  • Williams, R., and Johnson, P., 2013. Genetic policing: The uses of DNA in police investigations. Cullompton: Willan.
  • Willis, J.J., Koper, C.S., and Lum, C., 2020. Technology use and constituting structures: accounting for the consequences of information technology on police organisational change. Policing and society, 30 (5), 483–501.
  • Willis, J.J., Mastrofski, S.D., and Weisburd, D., 2004. Compstat and bureaucracy: A case study of challenges and opportunities for change. Justice quarterly, 21 (3), 463–496. doi:10.1080/07418820400095871.
  • Willis, J.J., Mastrofski, S.D., and Weisburd, D., 2007. Making sense of COMPSTAT: A theory-based analysis of organizational change in three police departments. Law & society review, 41, 147–188. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00294.x.
  • Wilson, C.P., and Wilson, S.A., 2011. Perceived roles of campus law enforcement: A cognitive review of attitudes and beliefs of campus constituents. Professional issues in criminal justice, 6 (1), 29–40.
  • Wood, J.D., Groff, E.R., and Talley, D., 2023. It depends’: Officer insights on the potential for body-worn cameras to change police and citizen behaviour. Policing: A journal of policy and practice, 17, 1–15.
  • Yin, R.K., 2018. Case study research and application: design and methods. London: Sage.