The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Justice Voluntary Sector
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2022, June)
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Paper presented at British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Surrey, UK
Third sector organisations (TSOs) have a long history of complementing work done by statutory agencies in criminal justice, to the extent that that TSOs no longer sit outside ...
Identity, Transitions and Support: Processes of Desistance Among Ex-Military Personnel in Custody
Presentation / Conference
Haddow, C., Winterton, M., & Morrison, K. (2022, June)
Identity, Transitions and Support: Processes of Desistance Among Ex-Military Personnel in Custody. Poster presented at Edinburgh Napier Armed Forces Day Event, Edinburgh, UK
Drug Consumption Rooms and Public Health Policy: Perspectives of Scottish Strategic Decision-Makers
Journal Article
Nicholls, J., Livingston, W., Perkins, A., Cairns, B., Foster, R., Trayner, K. M. A., …Parkes, T. (2022)
Drug Consumption Rooms and Public Health Policy: Perspectives of Scottish Strategic Decision-Makers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), Article 6575. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116575
There is widespread support for the introduction of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) in Scotland as part of a policy response to record levels of drug-related harm. However, exis...
Research Briefing on the policing and legal challenges of the proposed drug checking services in Scotland
Report
Falzon, D., Aston, E., Carver, H., & Parkes, T. (2022)
Research Briefing on the policing and legal challenges of the proposed drug checking services in Scotland. Scottish Government
Restorative Justice: Another Way of Doing Justice in Scotland?
Presentation / Conference
Buchan, J. (2022, March)
Restorative Justice: Another Way of Doing Justice in Scotland?. Presented at Morningside Justice and Peace, Edinburgh [Online]
In this invited talk for Morningside Justice and Peace, I introduce the concept of restorative justice, discuss its history and some critical issues in the field and then repo...
Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022)
Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34
This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police pol...
‘Virtual policing’, trust and legitimacy
Book Chapter
Bradford, B., Aston, E., O'Neill, M., & Wells, H. (2022)
‘Virtual policing’, trust and legitimacy. In J. Terpstra, R. Salet, & N. R. Fyfe (Eds.), The Abstract Police: Critical reflections on contemporary change in police organisations (213-238). Eleven International Publishing
Increasing technological mediation of police-public contact is a significant trend in UK policing. Members of the public are increasingly likely to encounter policing in ways ...
Newly Recruited Research Fellow – Estelle Clayton – Completes the INTERACT Team
Other
Clayton, E., & Aston, E. (2022)
Newly Recruited Research Fellow – Estelle Clayton – Completes the INTERACT Team. [Blog post]
Technology and Police Legitimacy
Book Chapter
Aston, E., Wells, H., Bradford, B., & O’Neill, M. (2022)
Technology and Police Legitimacy. In A. Verhage, M. Easton, & S. De Kimpe (Eds.), Policing in Smart Societies (43-68). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_4
Through a consideration of the use of mobile devices by the police and the public, this chapter explores some of the potential issues raised by the incorporation of technology...
Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle
Book Chapter
Thomas, S., White, C., Dougall, N., & Heyman, I. (2022)
Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle. In I. Bartkowiak-Théron, J. Clover, D. Martin, R. Southby, & N. Crofts (Eds.), Law enforcement and public health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing (111-123). New York: Springer
Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts ca...