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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Written by Dr Carly Lightowlers The association between alcohol and violence Due to its association with violent outcomes, heavy episodic or ‘binge’ drinking remains a concern in the fields of public health and criminal justice. In wider discourse and policy responses...
Written by Kelly Henderson, PhD researcher at Durham University, Co-founder of the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) and works for housing provider Gentoo. I am in my final year of my PhD at Durham University – my research examines the role of housing providers...
Dr Karen Harrison, University of Hull & Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, London. Based on empirical data collected between May 2013 and June 2105, this blog explores how four British police force areas currently respond to sexual abuse incidents...
