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Managerial Officers 3PO Briefing

Report
Wong, Y. N., Horgan, S., & Aston, E. (2024)
Managerial Officers 3PO Briefing. EPSRC

The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration

Journal Article
Pepper, I., Cox, C., Fee, R., Horgan, S., Jarman, R., Jones, M., …Tattum, C. (in press)
The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-02-2023-0042
Purpose The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education in the UK focuses on maintaining, enhancing and standardising the quality of higher education. Of significant ...

Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns

Journal Article
Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Thomas, D. R., & Wilson, L. (2024)
Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns. First Monday, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i2.13579
The targeted digital advertising infrastructures on which the business models of the social media platform economy rest have been the subject of significant academic and polit...

Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management

Presentation / Conference
Horgan, S., Aston, L., & Wong, Y. N. (2023, November)
Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology Conference 2023, Philadelphia

Pluralised responses to policing the Pandemic: Analysing the emergence of informal order maintenance strategies, the changing ‘policing web’, and the impacts of COVID-19 in rural communities. A Report on Interim Findings

Report
Wooff, A., Horgan, S., & Tatnell, A. (2021)
Pluralised responses to policing the Pandemic: Analysing the emergence of informal order maintenance strategies, the changing ‘policing web’, and the impacts of COVID-19 in rural communities. A Report on Interim Findings. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
Acknowledging the differential impacts of COVID-19 on communities, this project examines how the policing of rural communities has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We a...

The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland

Report
Horgan, S. (2021)
The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and the Scottish Government
This briefing paper represents a summary of doctoral research that explores how different groups make sense of and respond to cybercrime in their everyday lives. The research ...

Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing

Journal Article
Horgan, S., Collier, B., Jones, R., & Shepherd, L. (2021)
Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 11(3), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-08-2020-0034
Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop the theorisation of cybercrime in the context of the pandemic, and to sketch out a vision of how law enforcement might respond ...

ECR collective response: The future of criminology and the unsustainability of the status quo for ECRs

Journal Article
Anderson, S., Horgan, S., Jamieson, F., Jardine, C., & Rogers, A. (2020)
ECR collective response: The future of criminology and the unsustainability of the status quo for ECRs. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820949299
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The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland: A rapid review of the evidence and future considerations

Report
Collier, B., Horgan, S., Jones, R., & Shepherd, L. (2020)
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland: A rapid review of the evidence and future considerations. Edinburgh: Scottish Institute for Policing Research
This report is written with a Scottish audience in mind, but our conclusions are potentially relevant to changing police practices around the world. COVID-19 and the governmen...

Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland

Journal Article
Horgan, S., & Collier, B. (2016)
Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland. Scottish Justice Matters, 4(3), 19-20
CYBERSECURITY poses particular challenges to policy, policing and the public. Despite recent shifts in policing and security strategies, online victimisation is a major and gr...
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Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online (3PO)

2022 - 2025
3PO will build an understanding of public-facing professionals -specific risks, harms and privacy needs; co-create advanced tools, mechanisms and solutions that are cognisant of PFP-specific challenge...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £359,176

Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm

2021 - 2022
Research exploring cybercrime policing has tended to focus on specialist policing units on the one hand (Harkin, Whelan and Change, 2018), and on the inherent limits of public policing organisations o...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £19,709

Going AFK: interrogating the viability of desistance theorising for narratives of cyber-dependent criminal careers

2021 - 2022
This project brings together two of the Co-Investigators’ fields of criminological research: desistance research and cybercrime. These areas currently exist in relative isolation to each other but off...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £9,321

Policing a Crisis: A narrative account of pandemic policing, technological opportunities and ethical challenges

2020 - 2025
This PhD Studentship will employ narrative inquiry to map the technological opportunities and ethical challenges faced by Police Scotland when responding to the Pandemic. By inviting frontline officer...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £31,144

Scoping Seven Nations: Exploring International Assessments and Successes in Third Sector Cyber Maturity and Resilience

2020 - 2020
The project will explore whether, how, and with what results, a number of selected nations assess the cyber maturity of the cyber resilience of their respective voluntary/third sectors. Where relevant...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £5,000

Cyber Security and the Third Sector in Scotland: a Pilot Project exploring Third Sector awareness and usage of Scottish Government cyber security products and resources

2020 - 2020
The project aims to better understand how the Scottish Government’s cyber products, resources and support more generally are received by a small sample of differing Third Sector organisations. In doin...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £2,780

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