TY - JOUR AU - Slothower, Molly AB - Various models for creating conditional out-of-court police disposals have been proposed, ranging from relying entirely on the discretion of individual police officers, to strictly prescribing conditions through policy. Turning Point, a study testing one such conditional disposal, examined various approaches to bounding police discretion. Quality issues with some approaches were identified, risking loss of effectiveness, enforceability, and legitimacy. The study compares the conditions set by officers under five discretionary regimes, finding that quality of decision-making was 42 higherand approached full qualitybased on the measured criteria when an IT-based decision support system was used as compared with all non-IT based periods, and was 73 higher than the discretion-only period. This model was designed to focus professional discretion on the decisions where it was most valuable. As police cautioning widely relies on a high discretion model with low decision support, this research has considerable implications for police pre-court disposal standards and practiceparticularly for conditional cautions, Community Remedy, and community resolutionsin terms of quality of decision-making. TI - Strengthening Police Professionalism with Decision Support: Bounded Discretion in Out-of-Court Disposals JF - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice DO - 10.1093/police/pau051 DA - 2014-12-13 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/strengthening-police-professionalism-with-decision-support-bounded-sKODIT0Bgx SP - 353 EP - 367 VL - 8 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -