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                            Funding & Awards
 Advancing Knowledge and Practice in Policing: A Longitudinal Platform for National Research
Note:
              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              University of Illinois at Chicago
Award #
              2008-DN-BX-0005
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Chicago, IL
Congressional District
              7
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2008
Total funding (to date)
              $2,880,132
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2008, $1,880,086)
Police leaders and researchers are frustrated by the lack of knowledge about police officers in America; the police organizations in which they work; and the effectiveness of programs, policies and practices. Hence, the current study proposes an unprecedented national research platform for advancing knowledge about police officers, agencies, and interventions. The defining characteristics of the platform include: (1) the collection of standardized longitudinal data on employees and organizations across a national sample of agencies; (2) the ability to drill down deeper than previous studies on key issues; and (3) the ability to support randomized experiments to test innovative training and operational initiatives. A national sample of agencies would be classified into three distinct tiers of data collection intensity'thus providing both national estimates and greater depth on topics of interest.  This proposal calls for a demonstration of key components of the national research platform in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, three smaller jurisdictions, and a regional training academy that serves officers employed by several hundred agencies. At the core of the platform concept is a plan to follow the "career course" of police officers and supervisors. During the demonstration project, officer and supervisor self-reported behaviors and perceptions will be validated with survey data from peers, supervisors, community residents, and agency records. Tracking the "life course of agencies" is another key strength of the platform. This project will yield rich information on the dynamics that shape an organization's priorities, leadership style, performance, accountability systems, supervisory practices, police culture, street-level policing and other agency features. The platform provides a strong mechanism for the rigorous testing of innovations. The team will use experimental methods to evaluate innovative training provided to recruits and to supervisors.  The project team will consist of the executives in each demonstration site and some of the leading police researchers in the field. The project will be housed centrally at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with field offices in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The demonstration project by itself will advance the field of policing and provide scientifically valid conclusions about new recruits, supervisors, organizations, and interventions.
ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2012, $1,000,046)
The proposed continuation project has four primary objectives. First, the project will include a national probability sample of 100 law enforcement agencies with representative diversity in agency size, agency type, and region of the country.  This sample will allow for generalizability of the findings to agencies serving populations between 25,000 and 500,000, which includes the majority of police departments nationwide. Second, the research team will administer two types of organizational surveys - employee surveys that will attempt to reach nearly all agency personnel and key person surveys that will attempt to reach individuals who can inform the research team about particular internal organizational capacities (e.g., leadership; police management and accountability; employee development and professionalism; and, innovation and evidence-based policing).   Third, a public satisfaction survey (to be called the Police-Citizen Interaction Survey, PCIS) will be administered to measure the quality of police services in terms of procedural justice, victim sensitivity, and legitimacy in the project's sample of 100 police agencies.  The organizational and PCIS surveys will be supplemented by Census, LEMAS, and UCR data. LEMAS data will be used to capture additional personnel and agency characteristics, while the 2010 Census and UCR data will provide additional community characteristics and agency performance indicators as reflected in local crime rates. Finally, the project will provide standardized feedback to all 100 agencies to help improve the functions of the agencies. nca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Adherence to the police code of silence: Examining changes in recruits’ perceptions during the training academy
                  Exploring the Guardian Mindset as a Strategy for Improving Police-Community Relations
                  Breaking the Code of Silence: The Importance of Control Systems and Empathy Toward Outgroups
                  A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Academy Socialization on Police Integrity
                  Motivations for a career in policing: social group differences and occupational satisfaction
                  The relationship between organisational justice and police officer attitudes toward misconduct
                  "The Best Predictor of Future Behavior is ...": Examining the Impact of Past Police Misconduct on the Likelihood of Future Misconduct
                  Self-control and the Police Code of Silence: Examining the Unwillingness to Report Fellow Officers Misbehavior among a multi-agency sample of police recruits
                  Perceptions of Service Recipients from the Street Level. A Response to LaFrance and Lees "Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Differential Perceptions of the Residents. They Serve An Exploration and Preliminary Rationale
                  Effects of Police Agency Diversification on Officer Attitudes
                  Teaching Procedural Justice and Communication Skills During Police-Community Encounters: Results of a Randomized Control Trial With Police Recruits
                  Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct: A Multi-Agency Study of First-Line Police Supervisors
                  A Question of Style: Replicating and Extending Engel's Supervisory Styles With New Agencies and New Measures
                  Social Bonds and Police Misconduct: An Examination of Social Control Theory and Its Relationship to Workplace Deviance Among Police Supervisors
                  Measuring Procedural Justice and Legitimacy at the Local Level: the Police-Community Interaction Survey
                  Job-Related Burnout Among Civilian and Sworn Police Personnel
                  Law Enforcement Organization (LEO) Survey
                  Police Departments' Adoption of Innovative Practices
                  Results From the Police-Community Interaction (PCI) Survey
                  Community-based Indicators of Police Performance: Introducing the Platform's Public Satisfaction Survey
                  Diversification of Police Departments
                  Longitudinal Study of First Line Supervisors
                  National Police Research Project: The Life Course of New Officers
                  Police and the Community
                  Police Integrity, Responsibility, and Discipline
                  Police Supervision: A 360-Degree View of Eight Police Departments
                  Police Technology
                  Chicago Quality Interaction Training Program: A Randomized Control Trial of Police Innovation
                  Job Satisfaction Among Civilians in Policing
                  Measuring Police Organizations and their "Life Course"
                  Police Stress, Burnout, and Health
                  Police Training
                  Receptivity to Police Innovation: A Tale of Two Cities
                  NIJ: Providing Research and Guidance for the U.S. Law Enforcement Community




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34518.v1

  
Date Created: September 15, 2008
    
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