The Global Policing Database: Implications for Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based Policing

• In Event: Evidence-Based Crime Policy I

Abstract

The Global Policing Database (GPD) is an online searchable database designed to capture all published and unpublished experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations of policing interventions conducted since 1950. Distinct from other policing repositories, it includes evaluations of interventions conducted by police, with police, and on police. The GPD goes beyond crime and disorder outcomes, collecting studies that include outcomes such as fear of crime, perceptions of police, organisational effectiveness, physical and mental wellbeing. The GPD is currently being converted to a cloud-based screening system, where inputters from around the globe can contribute to its growth. We discuss the creation of the GPD and focus on the GPD as a disruptive technology with implications for systematic reviews of policing as well as evidence-based policy and practice.

Authors

• Angela Higginson, Queensland University of Technology

• Elizabeth Eggins, University of Queensland

• Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland

• Betsy Stanko, University College London