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EDITORIAL
From the Editor's desk
The paper by Rune Glomseth and Petter Gottschalk, both from Norway, talks about there
being no one single police culture in 'Police Personnel Cultures: A Comparative Study of
Counter Terrorist and Criminal Investigation Units.' Though Norway has one police service
there are significant and cultural differences that exist.
Peter Collins in his paper, 'The Effects of Cognitive Disability Evidence on Death
Penalty Dispositions: An Analysis Post Atkins v. Virginia,' discusses the concern regarding
the death penalty for criminal offenders suspected of suffering from mental retardation. His
research explores the varying effects of the evidence of cognitive disability on death penalty
dispositions.
The paper 'Police-Caused Homicides in the USA as a Function of Community Charac-
teristics: Revisiting a Set of Relationships from a Previous Generation,' co-authored by
Vance McLaughlin and Wade C. Mackey, looks at police homicides. Their paper re-visits
the rate of police-caused homicides which was empirically demonstrated to be a (partial)
function of demographic characteristics of the reference community and looks at such
police homicides in the twenty-first century.
Brian F. Kingshott writes about 'Women in Policing: Changing the Organizational
Culture by Adopting a Feminist Perspective on Leadership' as he discusses in an attempt to
identify aspects of classical leadership that may be of particular value within the police
service. In his words, [t]he police culture is often misogynist but the role of women is
important in policing therefore the influence of feminist ethics and descriptors may offer an
insight into changing an existing organizational culture as well as providing a feminist
perspective on leadership.'
'Citizen, Defend Thyself: An Individual-Level Analysis of Concealed Weapon Permit
Holders' by M.V. Hood III and Grant W. Neeley is about the right-to-carry laws and subse-
quent crime reduction and how it has relied profoundly on the use of econometric models
relying on the use of aggregate-level data.
The final paper 'Camp Randall Military Prison: Confederate Prisoners of War in
Madison, Wisconsin' is a historical analysis by Richard G. Zevitz of the treatment of
prisoners during the Civil War. In his own words, Zevitz states that 'in sheer numbers, the
great suffering and senseless loss of life endured by thousands of captured soldiers held in
enemy military prisons provide a striking example from the past of the depth capable of
being reached in terms often described as 'man's inhumanity to his fellow man.'
Roslyn Muraskin
Long Island University
ISSN 1478-601X print/ISSN 1478-6028 online
© 2009 Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14786010902796432
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