Julie Jackson is a Detective Inspector in Cheshire Police with 25 years policing experience and a background in public protection and criminal justice and a keen interest in victim and suspect interviewing. In this article Julie discusses the project which was...
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Police collaboration opportunities and child to parent violence
In June 2018 the N8PRP held its annual Knowledge Exchange conference. The theme for this year was child-to-parent violence (CPV), its complexities, recognition as an issue and prevention. In this blog-post Dr Simon Retford, Detective Superintendent at Greater...
Reflections on an N8 Policing Research Partnership PhD
Lindsay Youansamouth is researching an N8 PRP supported PhD studentship at Lancaster University focusing on police joint working. In this article Lindsay discusses her PhD research and some of the challenges and benefits the N8 PRP has brought to her collaborative...
Police and mental health – Not just doing the wrong thing righter
On 8th November the N8 PRP held its fourth annual Policing Innovation Forum. The theme for this year was Policing Mental Health: Improving services, reducing demand, and keeping people safe. In this article, Chief Inspector Michael Brown OBE, Mental Health Coordinator...
Interviewing sexual offence suspects: The impact of organisational, professional, and personal factors on eliciting information
This article explores research conducted as a result of an N8 PRP Application of Knowledge for More Effective Policing Programme funded PhD studentship. The PhD examines factors influencing effective information retrieval in investigative interviews conducted with...
Domestic homicide of older people in the UK
Hannah Bows is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at Durham University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA). In this articles she discusses the problem of ‘elder abuse’ and domestic homicide of older people in the UK. She...
Police use of body-worn cameras and the prosecution of domestic abuse: policy, practice and research
The N8 Policing Research Partnership recently supported a conference at the University of Leeds which explored ‘Police use of Body-Worn Cameras and the prosecution of domestic abuse: policy, practice and research’. In this blog-post Daniel Pugh, PhD candidate at Leeds...
Researching police responses to coercive control
Written by Dr Kelly Johnson and Dr Charlotte Barlow, Lancaster University Physical violence is now understood to be just one of many methods of domestic abuse, with psychological, emotional, coercive and controlling methods being increasingly acknowledged in academia,...
Creating public value in responding to domestic abuse
How can the police and agencies responsible for tackling domestic abuse connect with their communities and create public value in this area of work? Written by Dr Linda Reid, Alliance Manchester Business School There is copious research about the phenomenon of...
Counting crime, rethinking conventional measures
Written by Mark Bangs, Deputy Head of Crime Statistics, Office for National Statistics Official statistics on crime in England and Wales have been collated and published for over 100 years. Many aspects of these statistics have changed over this time, to adapt to the...