Policing without a badge: a scoping review of civilian personnel experience and impact in law enforcement agencies
Mousseau, Morin & Charbonneau (2025) · Policing: An International Journal, Vol. 48(6), Emerald Publishing · Funded by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
How Evidano fit the workflow
- 1Structured data extraction
The study reports that the first step of extraction was carried out with Evidano, described as an AI-powered conversational assistant for systematic and scoping reviews, working from a predefined coding grid.
- 2Researcher review and validation
Two independent coders reviewed entries and cross-checked flagged studies against the original material, with a semantic-similarity comparison used to surface and resolve discrepancies.
- 3Consolidated themes
Findings were organized through inductive thematic analysis into five themes, producing a single consolidated version of the review.
“AILYZE has made it possible to systematically structure data extraction while leaving room for researchers’ expertise to inspect, validate and integrate the results into a coherent theoretical framework.”
“[The] process, combining task-specific artificial intelligence and human supervision, ensured that data extraction was systematic, transparent and faithful to the information reported in the studies.”
The AI-assisted step was reported openly in the study’s methods section.
Researchers inspected, validated and integrated results. AI supported the work, it did not replace judgment.
The authors describe a process that stayed faithful to the information in the source studies.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
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AI-assisted qualitative analysis, used in a published UNESCO synthesis
Evidano (previously AILYZE) supported and triangulated the analysis behind UNESCO's 2025 Synthesis of Evaluations. See how AI-assisted qualitative analysis is being used, and disclosed, in published research.
50 evaluation reports analysed in the synthesis
2025 Synthesis of UNESCO Evaluations
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62 higher education institutions use Evidano
Evidano surfaced themes across six quarters of data from a 62-institution consortium, with researchers validating every finding.
62 consortium institutions whose data was analyzed
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Research spotlights: researchers in their own words
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How Evidano was used, in published methods sections
Verbatim excerpts from 20 published studies describing what Evidano did in their analysis — as a thought partner, a second coder, for initial coding, or for synthesis.
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Methodology guides and research writing
Practical guides to qualitative methods — thematic analysis, grounded theory, evidence synthesis and more — alongside the wider Evidano article library.
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Human vs AI: validated accuracy benchmarks
Three head-to-head comparisons against expert human analysis — 371 interview transcripts with Arizona State and Penn State, 298 evaluation reports for a UN evaluation group, and UNICEF’s manual-coding review.