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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