Policing

Abstract

This chapter provide an overview of our search strategy for identifying relevant systematic reviews. We then provide brief summaries of our included reviews. We next turn to lessons learned from the findings of these reviews, focusing our attention on what works, what seems not to be effective, and what seems promising for both crime control effectiveness and increasing fairness and legitimacy in policing. We then discuss what important questions remain unanswered with these reviews, focusing on both the need for more rigorous research and areas of policing where a review might be useful. We next turn to problems encountered with the existing reviews. Finally, we conclude with some thoughts on lessons the police can learn from systematic reviews and our recommendations for the future of systematic reviews on policing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)