Outputs (15)

Policing Distracted Driving (2023)
Book

This book draws on original research and existing theoretical perspectives and frameworks to critically examine the role of roads policing and its place within the wider field of policing. It looks at the challenges and complexities of doing roads po... Read More about Policing Distracted Driving.

‘Channel Shift’: technologically-mediated policing and procedural justice (2023)
Journal Article

In recent years, UK police forces have introduced various technologies that alter the methods by which they interact with the public. In a parallel development, many forces have also begun to embrace the concept of procedural justice as a method thro... Read More about ‘Channel Shift’: technologically-mediated policing and procedural justice.

Taking the right course: The possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving. (2022)
Journal Article

There is a considerable body of literature that outlines the dangers of mobile phone use by drivers. However, there is very little research that explores the role and effectiveness of attempts to tackle this specific road user problem. Generally, nor... Read More about Taking the right course: The possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving..

Taking the right course: the possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving (2022)
Journal Article

There is a considerable body of literature that outlines the dangers of mobile phone use by drivers. However, there is very little research that explores the role and effectiveness of attempts to tackle this specific road user problem. Generally, nor... Read More about Taking the right course: the possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving.

‘Virtual policing’, trust and legitimacy (2022)
Book Chapter

Technology and Police Legitimacy (2022)
Book Chapter

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. What internal challenges should be considered for police organisations? W... Read More about Technology and Police Legitimacy.

The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages (2021)
Journal Article

Evidence for how phone-use impacts driving is clear: phone-using drivers are four times more likely to crash; demonstrate poor hazard detection ability; take longer to react to any hazards they notice; and can look yet fail to see. However, drivers a... Read More about The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages.

Perceptions of compliance and enforcement on the Strategic Road Network: Focus groups and interviews (2020)
Journal Article

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Scrutinising the appeal of volunteer Community Speedwatch to policing leaders in England and Wales: Resources, Responsivity and Responsibilisation (2019)
Journal Article

This article focuses on ‘Community Speedwatch’ (CSW) - a particular volunteering approach that has apparently attracted the attention of senior police decision-makers in England and Wales over recent years. It considers the significance of decisions... Read More about Scrutinising the appeal of volunteer Community Speedwatch to policing leaders in England and Wales: Resources, Responsivity and Responsibilisation.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Roads policing, risk and the law-abiding driving offender (2019)
Journal Article

Roads policing is the most likely generator of an adverse-outcome encounter between the general public and the police and is therefore one of the most likely situations in which individuals are confronted with their own ‘law-abidingness’, or lack of... Read More about Keeping up, and keeping on: Roads policing, risk and the law-abiding driving offender.