HESA LAW JOURNAL

David R. White a School of Criminal Justice, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, USA ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationships between public service motivation and self-reported perceptions of vocational fit among one cohort of upper-level criminal justice students at a Midwestern university, while controlling for race, gender, age, and political orientation. The data come from Read More …

Mark D. Reed Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA ABSTRACT The right to be present for criminal justice proceedings is one of the key rights afforded crime victims and their families. A neglected but important area of investigation pertains to the adherence to rules of conduct in order to Read More …

William N. Cooper a Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA ABSTRACT In recent years, school resource officers (SROs) and their role in the context of school safety have become a popular topic of research. In this study, we analyze data from 31,156 students from over 100 schools in Kentucky to better Read More …

Smart Otu a Department of Criminology and Security Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ABSTRACT Employee perceptions of fairness are a critical component of organizational justice, and empirical studies have shown that both distributive and procedural justice, the major dimensions of organizational justice, play a role Read More …

Cody Jorgensen a Department of Criminal Justice, Boise State University, Boise, United States ABSTRACT Prior research focusing on mass shootings in the US has established the significant role of weapons in these events. Despite the extensive literature on the topic, minimal consideration has been given to the specific muzzle energy and caliber of ammunition used Read More …

Michael L. Valan ABSTRACT Even though the measurement of fear of crime in criminological research commenced a few decades ago, specific populations, such as social activists, remain undocumented. This article is an attempt to address this gap. A study was conducted among 153 social activists involved in exposing corruption and irregularities that take place in Read More …

Doris Schartmueller ABSTRACT For persons serving life-without-parole (LWOP) sentences in California, a commutation usually offers them the sole glimpse of hope for release from prison. While governors were reluctant to consider any sentence reductions from 1975 to 2016, commutations—including those for LWOP—have become a more frequent occurrence since. Yet, little is still known about how Read More …

Rosa dos Ventos Lopes Heimer a Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK ABSTRACT Research has explored how gender discrimination and sexist stereotypes in the form of rape myths permeate police investigations in England. Yet, scant attention has been given to the impact of intersectional structural disadvantages on shaping police responses to rape. Recent quantitative Read More …

Nigel G. Fielding Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK ABSTRACT Recruiting ethnic minority police officers is widely seen as a way to improve police effectiveness and police/public relations, and systematic reviews are often commended as the most robust way to evaluate such policies. We argue that the tenets of classic systematic review are, Read More …

Dany Franck A. Tiwa, Department of Urban Studies, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; African Centre for Crime and Security Studies (ACCSS Africa), Yaoundé, Cameroon ABSTRACT This journal explores an effect of distrust of the police – unwillingness to rely on them for security and justice – on policing dynamics in contemporary Nigeria using a qualitative Read More …