Policing reform is a topic near and dear to my heart, so I am happy to talk about this ad nauseam. One of the papers in my now-on-pause dissertation was on policing, and I also RAed on a study on community policing in the Global South. (It didn’t work.)
I agree that better policing is desperately needed in the developing world; functionally, there really aren’t police in much of the world. But I don’t know that the literature is yet mature enough for this kind of overview; policing in the developing world has really only taken off as a research area in the last few years. My wild speculation would be that police reform is really hard—changing incentives for police can be very difficult in under-resourced environments.
The field is really growing, though, so I’m excited to see what comes out of that field in the future. Travis Curtice and Rob Blair are two of my favorite scholars of policing.
Policing reform is a topic near and dear to my heart, so I am happy to talk about this ad nauseam. One of the papers in my now-on-pause dissertation was on policing, and I also RAed on a study on community policing in the Global South. (It didn’t work.)
I agree that better policing is desperately needed in the developing world; functionally, there really aren’t police in much of the world. But I don’t know that the literature is yet mature enough for this kind of overview; policing in the developing world has really only taken off as a research area in the last few years. My wild speculation would be that police reform is really hard—changing incentives for police can be very difficult in under-resourced environments.
The field is really growing, though, so I’m excited to see what comes out of that field in the future. Travis Curtice and Rob Blair are two of my favorite scholars of policing.