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...
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Co-ordinated community responses: Housing providers and domestic abuse
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...
Policing the culture of silence
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...
Possibilities for organisational learning and culture change through policing partnerships in safeguarding children
In this blog, Dr Xavier L’Hoiry (University of Sheffield) and Professor Adam Crawford (University of Leeds) reflect on some key points raised in a recently published article in Policing and Society which draws on findings of research funded by the ESRC. The full...
Spice and police custody: there must be a better way
Kelly J. Stockdale, Teesside University A string of shocking videos showing users of the drug “spice” in frozen and catatonic states on Britain’s streets and in prisons have sparked a national debate about how to deal with the substance and its users. But these...
Knowledge co-production and the policing of football crowd violence.
Professor Clifford Stott, Co-Director Keele University Policing Academic Collaboration (K-PAC). On the 25 January 2017 Djurgården IFK (DIF), one of Stockholm’s three major football clubs - played a friendly against Vasalund, a small club based in the Solna district of...
Co-production in police research: towards a model of greater inclusivity
Written by Sean Butcher, University of Leeds ‘Communities have problems; universities have departments’. So remarked the OECD in 1982, in a not-so-thinly veiled attack on the academy that lamented its inability to influence positive social change. Higher education...
Restorative justice and coercive control
Republished from: Restorative Justice - Part Two by Eve Thomas (SAFE CPS Limited) - To be read in conjunction with Restorative Justice & Domestic Abuse. For the last six years myself and colleagues have been researching the Criminal Justice System, victims...
Innovation in policing coercive control
“95 out of 100 domestic abuse survivors in one study reported experiencing coercive control …”, This was a startling account from domestic abuse victims given at the beginning of the second N8 Policing Innovation Forum, held in Manchester in November. Vera Baird QC...
Policing with a purpose: A leadership compass
by Dr Stephen Brookes, University of Manchester Business School I recently had the opportunity to consider the policing challenges facing Police Scotland, along with colleagues from the Scottish Institute of Policing Research and senior practitioners[1]. Concern had...