Policing & Law Enforcement

Select Publications & Reports (2019 - Present):

Updated August 1, 2025

Powell, Zachary A. and Rebecca L. Fix. (2025). "'We Have a Long Ways to Go': The Growing Pains of a Consent Decree in a Municipal Police Department." Police Quarterly.
Powell, Zachary A. and Sishi Wu. (2025). "Supreme Court Decisions and Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. doi: 10.1093/police/paaf008

Fix, Rebecca L. and Zachary A. Powell. (2024). "Policing Stress, Burnout, and Mental Health in a Wake of Rapidly Changing Policies." Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. 39(2): 370-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-024-09671-0
Powell, Zachary A. and Joshua Chanin. (2024). "Reforming Pattern-or-Practice Police Reform: What Works, What Doesn't, and Where We Need to Go." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 18: doi: 10.1093/police/paae114

Brunet, Nicolas M., *Caitlin R. Bean, *Natalya K. Marsh, and Zachary A. Powell. (2023). "Trust in the Police and Affective Evaluations of Police Faces: A Preliminary Study." Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science. 14:1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1258297
Powell, Zachary A. (2023). "Body-worn Cameras and Settlements." Justice Evaluation Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751979.2023.2267651
Powell, Zachary A. (2023). "De-policing, Police Stops, and Crime." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 17:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac070
Powell, Zachary A. (2023). "Did California Act to Save Lives? AB 392 and Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 17:1-10. doi: 10.1093/police/paad073

Gaines, Larry K., Victor E. Kappeler, & Zachary A. Powell. (2022). Policing in America, Ninth Edition, Routledge: Philadelphia, PA.

Powell, Zachary A. and John L. Worrall. (2021). "Willingness to Pay for Police Reform." Criminal Justice Policy Review. 32(6): 567-591.

Bichler, G., & Schmerler, K. (2020). Crime and Disorder at Budget Motels in Chula Vista, California. In: Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies.
Montes, Andrea N., Daniel P. Mears, Nicole L. Collier, George B. Pesta, Sonja E. Siennick., & Samantha J. Brown. (2020). "Blurred and Confused: The Paradox of Police in Schools." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (doi: 10.1093/police/paaa045).
Parsons, D. & Kremling, J. (2020). Community Policing Today: Issues, Controversies, and Innovations. Sage Publishing.

Siennick, Sonja E., Samantha J. Brown, Daniel P. Mears, George B. Pesta, Andrea N. Montes, & Nicole L. Collier. (2019). "School-Based Services for Youth with Prior Police Contact: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Experimental Criminology 16:207-226.

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