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Negotiating the “Bad Guy”: Defensive Simplification and Moral Ambiguity in Police Work

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, July 2026
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Negotiating the “Bad Guy”: Defensive Simplification and Moral Ambiguity in Police Work
Published in
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, July 2026
DOI 10.1177/00224278261467302
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 September 2026.
All research outputs
#3,197,367
of 34,317,218 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
#92
of 633 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,173
of 338,718 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,317,218 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 633 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 338,718 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them