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The Right of Reply: On the Science and Politics of Crowd Psychology (2020)
Journal Article
Stott, C., Ho, L., Radburn, M., Chan, Y. T., Kyprianides, A., & Morales, P. S. (2021). The Right of Reply: On the Science and Politics of Crowd Psychology. Policing, 14(4), 852-859. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa078

It is important to recognize that the publication of this study is the outcome of a pioneering approach developed by the editorial team of what has recently become one of the world’s most highly ranked policing journals. As part of their underpinning... Read More about The Right of Reply: On the Science and Politics of Crowd Psychology.

Patterns of ‘Disorder’ During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization (2020)
Journal Article
Stott, C., Ho, L., Radburn, M., Chan, Y. T., Kyprianides, A., & Morales, P. S. (2021). Patterns of ‘Disorder’ During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization. Policing, 14(4), 814-835. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa073

Across the latter half of 2019, Hong Kong became the focus of world attention as it was rocked by a wave of increasingly violent confrontations between police and protesters. Both inside and outside the Territory, several powerful political actors ha... Read More about Patterns of ‘Disorder’ During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization.

Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The Hive. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The Hive. PloS one, e0241227 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241227

INTRODUCTION: Do we always do what others do, and, if not, when and under what conditions do we do so? In this paper we test the hypothesis that mimicry is moderated by the mere knowledge of whether the source is a member of the same social category... Read More about Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The Hive..

Crowds and public order policing: an analysis of crowds and interpretations of their behaviour based on observational studies: by Ibrahim Cerrah, London, Routledge, 1998, £27.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138612471 (2020)
Journal Article
Stott, C. (2020). Crowds and public order policing: an analysis of crowds and interpretations of their behaviour based on observational studies: by Ibrahim Cerrah, London, Routledge, 1998, £27.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138612471. Policing and Society, 30(8), 982-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1819277

Social Order and Disorder (2020)
Book Chapter
Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2020). Social Order and Disorder. In Together Apart The Psychology of COVID-19. (1). SAGE Publications

On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 694 - 702. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12398

In this paper, we analyse the conditions under which the COVID-19 pandemic will lead either to social order (adherence to measures put in place by authorities to control the pandemic) or to social disorder (resistance to such measures and the emergen... Read More about On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic..

How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities (2020)
Journal Article
Stott, & Radburn. (2020). How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820933912

Despite widespread empirical support for Procedural Justice Theory, understanding the role of police psychology in shaping encounters with ‘citizens’ is relatively opaque. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring how offi... Read More about How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities.

COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12393

Notions of psychological frailty have been at the forefront of debates around the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, there is the argument that collective selfishness, thoughtless behaviour, and over-reaction would make the effe... Read More about COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology..

COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 686 - 693. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12393

Notions of psychological frailty have been at the forefront of debates around the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, there is the argument that collective selfishness, thoughtless behaviour, and over-reaction would make the effe... Read More about COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology..

How crowd violence arises and how it spreads (2020)
Book Chapter
Drury, J., Ball, R., Neville, F., Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2020). How crowd violence arises and how it spreads. In The Handbook of Collective Violence (175-187). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429197420-17

This chapter critically reviews theory and research on the emergence and spread of crowd violence. The chapter is divided into two parts, the first focused on violence within crowd events, and the second concerned with the spread of conflict between... Read More about How crowd violence arises and how it spreads.

Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder. Policing, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa014

This briefing is divided into three parts. First, we outline the factors which lead to incidents of collective disorder (or riots). Secondly, we consider how the overall response to the coronavirus outbreak and the role of the police within this resp... Read More about Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder.

Understanding crowd conflict: social context, psychology and policing. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott, & Radburn. (2020). Understanding crowd conflict: social context, psychology and policing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 76 - 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.03.001

This review draws together articles from a range of different disciplines to highlight the central role played by social context and policing in the dynamics of crowd conflict. Accordingly, the review highlights the importance and value of interdisci... Read More about Understanding crowd conflict: social context, psychology and policing..

A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2650

Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of r... Read More about A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots.

Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011 (2019)
Journal Article
Ball, R., Stott, C., Drury, J., Neville, F., Reicher, S., & Choudhury, S. (2019). Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011. City, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1685283

In August 2011, over four days, rioting spread across several cities in England. Previous accounts of these riots have indicated the roles of police racism, class disadvantage, and spatial affordance. However what remains unclear is how these structu... Read More about Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011.

The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 421-438. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818780200

Contemporary research on policing and procedural justice theory (PJT) emphasises large-scale survey data to link a series of interlocking concepts, namely perceptions of procedural fairness, police legitimacy and normative compliance. In this paper w... Read More about The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities.

Enabling an Evidence Based Approach to Policing Football in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). Enabling an Evidence Based Approach to Policing Football in the UK. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 977-994. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay102

Across the last 10 years, the policing of demonstrations in the UK has witnessed substantive change in terms of both statutory guidance and operational practices. With this study, we highlight how the policing of football crowds in the UK has, to dat... Read More about Enabling an Evidence Based Approach to Policing Football in the UK.

The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden (2018)
Journal Article
Stott. (2018). The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden. Soccer and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2018.1553777

Evidence of the value of increased supporter involvement in football governance is limited and existing work focuses primarily on the boardroom, rather than on managing problems associated with fan behaviour (e.g. violence, pyrotechnics). Moreover, r... Read More about The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden.