Policing and the policed

ICPR’s policing research explores many facets of the police as an organisation, policing operations and effectiveness, and the relationship between the police and the public. Past and current work under this theme includes a study of misconduct by chief officers; research on the police complaints system; research into the policing of organised crime groups involved in fraud; the professionalisation of the police and increased use of evidence based policing, the introduction of the Police Educational Qualification Framework and a range of studies focusing on procedural justice.

Current projects

Fraud on the Socials: Exploring Young people’s Understandings and Experiences of Online Fraud and the Implications for Policy and Practice

Law enforcement responses to organised fraud

Operation Soteria/Bluestone: Re-examining the investigation of Rape and Serious Sexual Offences

Tackling Online Fraud

Completed projects include:

City.Risks: Avoiding and mitigating safety risks in urban environments

Developing an evidence based approach to police graduate training

Digital Forensics and Social Media Evidence

Evaluating the use of evidence by the N8 Policing Research Partnership Forces

Language Barriers in the Criminal Justice System

Organised Crime Groups involved in Fraud

The Facilitation of Organised Fraud by Professional Enablers and Money Launderers

Publications

Bradford, B., Jackson, J. and Hough, Mike (2017) Trust in justice. In: Uslaner, R. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Hunter, Gillian and May, Tiggey and Hough, Mike (2017) An evaluation of the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction: final report. Project Report. College of Policing, London, UK.

Hough, Mike, Jackson, J. and Bradford, B. (2017) Policing, procedural justice and prevention. In: Tilley, N. and Sidebottom, A. (eds.) Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety (second edition). Milton Park: Routledge.

Bath, C., Bhardwa, Bina, Jacobson, Jessica, May, Tiggey and Webster, R. (2015) There to help: ensuring provision of appropriate adults for mentally vulnerable adults detained or interviewed by police. Project Report. National Appropriate Adult Network, London, UK.

Hough, Mike (2015) Crime, policing and compliance with the law. In: Michie, J. and Cooper, C. (eds.) Why the Social Sciences Matter. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-160

Jackson, J.,Tyler, T.R., Hough, Mike and Bradford, B. and Mentovich, A. (2014) Compliance and legal authority. In: Wright, J.D. (ed.) The International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (2nd edition). Oxford, UK: Elsevier, pp. 456-462.