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

Hough, Mike and Sato, M. (2011) Trust in justice: why it is important for criminal policy, and how it can be measured. Project Report. Euro-Justis Project, Helsinki, Finland

Heard, Catherine and Mansell, D. (2011) The European Investigation Order: changing the face of evidence-gathering in EU cross-border cases. New Journal of European Criminal Law 2 (2), pp. 353-367

Jackson, J., Hough, Mike, Bradford, B., Pooler, T., Hohl, K. and Kuha, J. (2011) Trust in justice: topline results from round 5 of the European Social Survey. Project Report. European Social Survey, London, UK.

Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, Mike, Kouha, J., Stares, S., Widdop, S., Fitzgerald, R., Yordanova, M. and Galev, T. (2011) Developing European indicators of trust in justice. European Journal of Criminology 8 (4), pp. 267-285.

Hough, Mike, Ruuskanen, E. and Jokinen, A. (2011) Trust in justice and the procedural justice perspective: Editors’ introduction. European Journal of Criminology 8 (4), pp. 249-253.

Hough, Mike (2010) Policing, new public management and legitimacy. In: Brookes, S. and Grint, K. (eds.) The New Public Leadership Challenge. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 70-84