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  • Understanding the concept of 'demand' in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management

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    Author(s)
    Laufs, Julian
    Bowers, Kate
    Birks, Daniel
    Johnson, Shane D
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    Birks, Daniel J.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    As literature around policing and society grows, there is increased use of, and focus upon the concept of police ‘demand’. The concept itself, however, is ill-defined and no consensus exists about how it should be measured. This paper addresses these issues by undertaking a scoping review of literature on the topic, and by exploring how demand has been conceptualised in both academic and practitioner communities. The review reveals that while key interdependencies between police demand and supply are widely discussed, they are often analysed in isolation. To add to the academic discussion of police demand, the paper introduces ...
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    As literature around policing and society grows, there is increased use of, and focus upon the concept of police ‘demand’. The concept itself, however, is ill-defined and no consensus exists about how it should be measured. This paper addresses these issues by undertaking a scoping review of literature on the topic, and by exploring how demand has been conceptualised in both academic and practitioner communities. The review reveals that while key interdependencies between police demand and supply are widely discussed, they are often analysed in isolation. To add to the academic discussion of police demand, the paper introduces a comprehensive conceptualisation including the various forms police demand can take and the different manifestations of drivers for police demand. Subsequently, it outlines several approaches that might be levied to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of demand management approaches. These include the consideration of trade-offs that need to be considered. For example, there is a need to balance any resources allocated to deal with proactive demand reduction and that necessary for (reactive) response. Considering the dynamics of police demand and–by necessity–supply through the lens of complex adaptive systems we propose potential ways forward that capitalise on this framing.
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    Journal Title
    Policing and Society
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1791862
    Copyright Statement
    © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Policy and administration
    Social work
    Social Sciences
    Criminology & Penology
    Police demand
    scoping review
    policing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396468
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