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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Conference review: 11-12 July 2016 Written by Sean Butcher, PhD Researcher at University of Leeds, School of Law. Policing stands at a crossroads. In a period of considerable fiscal restraint, the challenge of meeting public demand for police provision has...
An innovative international conference on police-academic partnerships in the 21st Century - 12-14 October 2016 Over the last few weeks my research team and I have spent many hours in custody suites up and down the country persuading sometimes stressed and, often,...
This is a personal reflection on research that I conducted whilst a part of the Paul McKeever Scholarship. I am aware that the contents of it are quite controversial, and I am also aware of the fact that the police need much, much greater diversity in their ranks. The...
