All Outputs (4)

When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing (2016)
Journal Article
Stott. (2016). When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing. Policing and Society, 647-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1234470

Procedural justice theory (PJT) is now a widely utilised theoretical perspective in policing research that acknowledges the centrality of police ‘fairness’. Despite its widespread acceptance this paper asserts that there are conceptual limitations th... Read More about When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing.

On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney (2016)
Journal Article
Stott. (2016). On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 965-981. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw036

Theoretical perspectives that give primacy to ideological or structural determinism have dominated criminological analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This paper provides an alternative social psychological perspective through detailed empirical ana... Read More about On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney.

Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach (2016)
Journal Article
Stott. (2016). Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach. Public Understanding of Science, 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516639872

This article explores the origins and ideology of classical crowd psychology, a body of theory reflected in contemporary popularised understandings such as of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This article argues that during the nineteenth century, the crowd... Read More about Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach.

Policing football ‘risk’? A participant action research case study of a liaison-based approach to ‘public order’ (2016)
Journal Article
Stott, C., West, O., & Radburn, M. (2018). Policing football ‘risk’? A participant action research case study of a liaison-based approach to ‘public order’. Policing and Society, 28(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1126267

This paper reports upon the first formal academic analysis of the deployment of a dialogue based and explicitly non-coercive ‘Police Liaison Team’ (PLT) within the public order policing operation surrounding a football fixture. The study uses an appr... Read More about Policing football ‘risk’? A participant action research case study of a liaison-based approach to ‘public order’.