The psychology of justice buildings: A survey experiment on police architecture, public sentiment, and race

Headley, Andrea M.; Blount‐Hill, Kwan‐Lamar; John, Victor St.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101747

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“…Some civilians may never encounter police, though, at least not in the course of police work. Still, the public ‘encounters’ police through vicarious storytelling (Blount‐Hill, 2021), the police station building (Headley et al, 2021), and their media sources (Dawson, 2018). All of these are contexts of socialization that can inform police attitudes without reliance on an individual officer or her interpersonal claims.…”

Section: Who What When Where?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Clarion call: A comment on Hamm et al.'s (2022) diagrammatic map for a future research agenda

Blount‐Hill

Gau

2022

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Section: Who What When Where?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Clarion call: A comment on Hamm et al.'s (2022) diagrammatic map for a future research agenda

Blount‐Hill

Gau

2022

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…The discrepancy between the reality and representation of their work is of course not just a matter of how transnational police express themselves. The warlike symbolism may also be seen in the "spectacular" (Boyle and Haggerty, 2009) architecture of transnational police buildings and security measures (see Headley et al, 2020;Millie, 2012) as well as in how they curate themselves in public, for instance on social media (Bullock, 2018;Mawby, 2013;Walsh, 2020). A particularly evocative example of the former is that of Europol's headquarters in The Hague.…”

Section: On Moats and Mundanitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A fighting fetish: On transnational police and their warlike presentation of self

Sausdal

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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Transnational police readily use martial language in the stories they tell about their work. Their actual work, however, tells a different and less dramatic story. Why, then, do they insist on these warlike tales? Why is there a discrepancy between the self-representation of transnational policing and its reality? Using an ethnographic study, this article provides some answers. First, it includes an overview of three established explanations of the inclination of transnational police to represent their work in warlike terms. Next, an additional reading is presented. Building on Reiner’s discussion of “police fetishism”, this reading proposes that transnational policing actors have an idée fixe about their own professional inevitability. They blindly believe that policing must exist, but also that it has to be done combatively to truly work. In conclusion, the article contemplates what the existence of such a “fighting fetish” means in both theoretical and reform terms.

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“…More contemporary instances of research regarding police station design is sporadic, and what is available, acknowledges a fundamental lack of focus on broader social objectives and themes of wellbeing within policing environments. This gap is still yet to be recognised formally on a larger scale within the intersecting fields of architecture and criminology (Headley et al, 2021;Millie, 2012). Similarly, the available research in this field have limited scope, dealing with the influence of police station architecture on perceptions of law enforcement (Headley et al, 2021).…”

Section: Global Approaches To Police Station Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This gap is still yet to be recognised formally on a larger scale within the intersecting fields of architecture and criminology (Headley et al, 2021;Millie, 2012). Similarly, the available research in this field have limited scope, dealing with the influence of police station architecture on perceptions of law enforcement (Headley et al, 2021). Exploratory work by Millie (2012)…”

Section: Global Approaches To Police Station Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The voluntary sharing of space encourages familiarity and beneficial relationships to be formed organically, while reciprocal trust is built through the deliverance of social amenities mutually desired by police and communities. Elements that separate public from the building such as barriers, walls, and spiked or metal fences illicit feelings of intimidation or unapproachability (Clinton & Devlin, 2011;Headley et al, 2021;Millie, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Policing Architecture: fostering wellbeing through police station [re]design

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The architecture of New Zealand Police (NZP) stations is in a pivotal place, uniquely positioned to empower, mediate and facilitate interactions between the general public, police staff and vulnerable members of our community including offenders and victims. However, the current police station environments embody outdated policing philosophies, with little spatial reflection of modern community or wellbeing values. This thesis explores the hypothesis that police station architecture can proactively contribute towellbeing outcomes desired by police and the community. Using design as a tool, it looks at both the process of design and design outcomes to explore how wellbeing values can be integrated into a builtpolicing environment, historically dominated by technical values of safety, authority, and social control. The thesis recognises the unique characters of the general public, police staff, detained persons, andvulnerable people as catalysts of wellbeing, and proposes a conceptual police station environment that addresses this. Using an iterative design process, the thesis synthesises design experiments into aculminatory police station building located in Wellington, New Zealand. It reflects on this process and comments on the ability of design to empower communities and NZP to create safer neighbourhoods together.

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The psychology of justice buildings: A survey experiment on police architecture, public sentiment, and race

Cited by 10 publications

References 73 publications

Clarion call: A comment on Hamm et al.'s (2022) diagrammatic map for a future research agenda

Clarion call: A comment on Hamm et al.'s (2022) diagrammatic map for a future research agenda

A fighting fetish: On transnational police and their warlike presentation of self

Policing Architecture: fostering wellbeing through police station [re]design

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