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Worlds Apart? On the Possibilities of Police/Academic Collaborations

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This article is published in Policing-an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 37 citations till now.

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To Swerve and Neglect: De-Policing Throughout Today’s Front-Line Police Work

TL;DR: This article found that a substantial majority of today's rank-and-file officers in the 23 jurisdictions across both countries (72%) are intentionally reducing, or eliminating, proactive interactions in the community, in response to officers' perceptions that such discretionary initiatives are unnecessarily risky.
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The McDonaldization of police–academic partnerships: organisational and cultural barriers encountered in moving from research on police to research with police

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reflect on their experiences of building a police-academic partnership, focusing on: (1) the internal organisational and cultural drivers and barriers; (2) the opportunities offered via 'in-house' research by analysts and police officers and (3) evaluation.
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Knowledge exchange and police practice: broadening and deepening the debate around researcher–practitioner collaborations

TL;DR: The bare-bones premise that operations should be informed by knowledge is so elementary and so evident, that one feels apologetic in drawing attention to it as discussed by the authors. Yet, there is no discernible, clear-cut, and unambiguous way to interpret it.
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Brokering communities of practice: a model of knowledge exchange and academic-practitioner collaboration developed in the context of community policing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of research in knowledge transfer and exchange collaborations and the importance of personal relationships and organisational structures in shaping and sustaining them, and argue that the nature and scope of academic-practitioner collaborations is more meaningfully captured by a model that is introduced and sketched out in this arti...
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In search of a methodology of collaboration: understanding researcher–practitioner philosophical differences in policing

TL;DR: For instance, the authors surveyed police researchers and practitioners concerning their philosophical orientations (pragmatic, intellectual, or humanistic), as well as their perceptions of research collaboration processes (collaboration climate, trust, and knowledge integration) and overall performance.
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Participatory Action Research

TL;DR: Whyte as discussed by the authors discusses the role of the social scientist in participatory action research in agricultural research and development in the context of agricultural data collection and data sharing in the field of agricultural research.
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Reflections on participatory research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the limitations of participatory diagramming and illustrate some of the social and political barriers to meaningful participation in, and action from, this type of research.
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Part of the action, or ‘going native’? Learning to cope with the ‘politics of integration’

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the role of the researcher as an activist through documentation of their interaction and repositioning of identities while becoming involved in credit union development in Kingston upon Hull.
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Bias in the Biography: Bias and Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a number of factors that determine bias and subjectivity in ethnographic research are discussed. And the authors suggest ways to move this bias in biography toward a new era in anthropology and education.
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Who Stole my Methodology? Co-opting PAR (1)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the increasing popularity and use of participatory action research poses both possibilities and problems for researchers, and discuss the challenges that this process presents to the concept of participation within PAR, as well as the implications it has for constructing methodologies for inclusive forms of PAR.
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