Trends in police research: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2005 literature

This review represents the sixth in an annual special feature in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. It provides a cross-sectional analysis of the police literature for 2005, with a focus on the substantive categories, publication medium, and methodological typology of such literature. This paper also comments on reviews of years past, using the findings of Beckman, Lum, Wyckoff, and Larsen-Vanderwall (2003) as a basis for the discussion of the patterns of the aforementioned characteristics over time. A topically organized bibliography of the 2005 police literature reviewed is also provided.