Making an Impact on Policing and Crime

Clifford Stott is currently a Professor of Social Psychology at Keele University and founder and Director of the Keele Policing Academic Collaboration (KPAC). His interdisciplinary research expertise focuses on issues of social identity, procedural justice, human rights and group level dynamics as these relate to crowds, riots, hooliganism and policing.Ben Bradford is Professor of Global City Policing at University College London (UCL). He is also Director of the Institute for Global City Policing, which is funded by UCL, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime to conduct policing research in London. His research focuses on police–community relations, with a particular emphasis on procedural justice theory and questions of trust, legitimacy, cooperation and compliance.Matthew Radburn is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Keele University working on a range of policing-related projects as part of the academic team within the Keele Policing Academic Collaboration (KPAC). This includes the ESRC funded project ‘From coercion to consent: social identity, legitimacy, and a process model of police procedural justice (CONSIL)’.Leanne Savigar-Shaw is a Lecturer in Policing at Staffordshire University. She is currently involved in ethnographic research concerning police–public interaction, procedural justice and fairness within policing. Her research interests also include road safety, driver education and, in particular, mobile phone use by drivers.

"This is a really important and impressive collection of the best of recent psychological research applied to crime and policing. The benchmark of using the Research Evaluation Framework has focused the book on high quality research with demonstrated impact which makes this collection both relevant and compelling for both students and practitioners." —Dr Peter Neyroud, former Chief Constable of Thames Valley, CEO of the National Policing Improvement Agency, University of Cambridge, UK"Across the world, police and criminal justice systems are wrestling with demanding issues of sexual offending, facial recognition, terrorism, rehabilitation, peaceful order maintenance, securing the truth and legitimacy. For those inside or outside those systems who want to make a difference, this collection of ideas and research, supported by promising or more convincing evidence of real impact, is a great starting point." —Sir Denis O’Connor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary 2009-12, Institute of Criminology Cambridge, UK

• 1. Preventing and reducing sexual abuse 2. CCTV and the super-recognisers 3. Forensic questioning 4. Detecting deception 5. Political violence 6. Sport and physical activity in prisons 7. Procedural justice – the impact of a theory 8. Policing crowds