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A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, A., Bradford, B., & Stott, C. (in press). A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts. Journal of Experimental Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09595-5

Objectives
To systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the association between procedural justice and legitimacy in policing.

Methods
A meta-analysis synthesising data from 123 studies (N = 200,966) addressing t... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts.

Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage (2023)
Journal Article
Au‐Yeung, T., Philpot, R., Stott, C., Radburn, M., & Drury, J. (in press). Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12703

Across a range of recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, the question of how crowds behave in confined public space is an important concern. Classical theoretical assumptions are that human behaviour in such contexts is relatively uniform, s... Read More about Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage.

Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation (2023)
Journal Article
Hope, M., Radburn, M., & Stott, C. (2023). Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation. Policing and Society, 33(5), 485-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2173193

Discretion is a key feature of policing, yet its surrounding research has historically been heavily reliant upon exploring interpersonal or dyadic encounters between individual officers and members of the public. More recently, studies have explored... Read More about Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation.

A social identity perspective on interoperability in the emergency services: Emergency responders' experiences of multiagency working during the COVID‐19 response in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Davidson, L., Carter, H., Amlôt, R., Drury, J., Haslam, S. A., Radburn, M., & Stott, C. (2022). A social identity perspective on interoperability in the emergency services: Emergency responders' experiences of multiagency working during the COVID‐19 response in the UK. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 31(3), 353-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12443

Recent research has shown that multiagency emergency response is beset by a range of challenges, calling for a greater understanding of the way in which these teams work together to improve future multiagency working. Social psychological research sh... Read More about A social identity perspective on interoperability in the emergency services: Emergency responders' experiences of multiagency working during the COVID‐19 response in the UK.

A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management: Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk (2022)
Book
Pearson, G., & Stott, C. (2022). A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management: Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16298-5

Provides update on law, policing, fan culture and the football industry, drawing on data mostly from the UK and Europe

Discusses why hooliganism became an issue both politically and academically in the 1960s, 70s and 80s

Draws on Sociology, Psy... Read More about A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management: Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk.

Group processes and interoperability: A longitudinal case study analysis of the UK's civil contingency response to Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Radburn, M., Stott, C., Bryant, R., Morgan, B., Tallent, D., & Davidson, L. (2022). Group processes and interoperability: A longitudinal case study analysis of the UK's civil contingency response to Covid-19. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 31(1), 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12424

Our case study explored a Local Resilience Forum's (LRF) civil contingency response to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. We undertook 19 semistructured ethnographic longitudinal interviews, between March 25, 2020 and February 17, 2021, with a Director... Read More about Group processes and interoperability: A longitudinal case study analysis of the UK's civil contingency response to Covid-19.

Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., & Stott, C. (2022). Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. PloS one, 17(2), Article e0264618. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264618

Shopping behaviour in response to extreme events is often characterized as "panic buying" which connotes irrationality and loss of control. However, "panic buying" has been criticized for attributing shopping behaviour to people's alleged psychologic... Read More about Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness. (2021)
Journal Article
Stott. (2021). Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness. Law and Human Behavior, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000465

OBJECTIVE: We conducted an exploratory study testing procedural justice theory with a novel population. We assessed the extent to which police procedural justice, effectiveness, legitimacy, and perceived risk of sanction predict compliance with the l... Read More about Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness..

Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London (2021)
Journal Article
Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2021). Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 492 - 508. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000312

Social identity is a core aspect of procedural justice theory, which predicts that fair treatment at the hands of power holders such as police expresses, communicates, and generates feelings of inclusion, status, and belonging within salient social c... Read More about Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London.

Police Powers and Public Assemblies: Learning from the Clapham Common ‘Vigil’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Stott, C., Radburn, M., Pearson, G., Kyprianides, A., Harrison, M., & Rowlands, D. (2022). Police Powers and Public Assemblies: Learning from the Clapham Common ‘Vigil’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Policing, 16(1), 73-94. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paab060

The policing of peaceful public assembly during the Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the most central challenges to police legitimacy. This is arguably because mass gatherings are assumed to carry a high risk of contagion yet, at the same time, peac... Read More about Police Powers and Public Assemblies: Learning from the Clapham Common ‘Vigil’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway (2021)
Journal Article
Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway.

Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody (2021)
Journal Article
Savigar-Shaw, L., Radburn, M., Stott, C., Kyprianides, A., & Tallent, D. (2022). Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody. Policing and Society, 32(6), 778-793. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1960332

This paper contributes to the literature on Procedural Justice Theory (PJT) by exploring its capacity to explain the dynamic interactions between police and citizens within the context of police detention. Analysis is based on observation and intervi... Read More about Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody.

Behavioural responses to Covid-19 health certification: a rapid review (2021)
Journal Article
Drury, J., Mao, G., John, A., Kamal, A., James Rubin, G., Stott, C., …Marteau, T. M. (2021). Behavioural responses to Covid-19 health certification: a rapid review. BMC Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11166-0

BACKGROUND: Covid-status certification - certificates for those who test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, test positive for antibodies, or who have been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 - has been proposed to enable safer access to a range of activiti... Read More about Behavioural responses to Covid-19 health certification: a rapid review.

Crowd Theory, Communication and Policing (2021)
Book Chapter
Stott, C., Radburn, M., & Savigar, L. (2021). Crowd Theory, Communication and Policing. In Handbook of Policing, Communication and Society. Rowman & Littlefield

Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing (2021)
Journal Article
Kyprianides, A., Bradford, B., Beale, M., Savigar-Shaw, L., Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2021). Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing. Policing and Society, 32(4), 504-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1916492

Police organisations have a wealth of experience in responding to emergencies, but COVID-19 is unprecedented in terms of the speed, scale and complexity of developing doctrine and its implementation by officers. The crisis also threw into sharp relie... Read More about Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing.

Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations (2021)
Journal Article
Stott. (2021). Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations. Safety Science, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105243

This article reviews the behavioural risks and possible mitigations for re-opening large venues for sports and music events when Covid-19 infection rates and hospitalizations begin to decline. We describe the key variables that we suggest will affect... Read More about Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations.

Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals. (2021)
Journal Article
Stott. (2021). Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals. Social Science and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113763

RATIONALE: The field of mass gathering medicine has tended to focus on physical factors in the aggravation and mitigation of health risks in mass gatherings to the neglect of psychosocial factors. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to explore perspectives... Read More about Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals..

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

'PLAYING THE GAME': POWER, AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LONDON (2020)
Journal Article
Kyprianides, A., Stott, C., & Bradford, B. (2021). 'PLAYING THE GAME': POWER, AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LONDON. British Journal of Criminology, 61(3), 670 - 689. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa086

We explore the relevance of procedural justice theory for understanding the relationship between police and marginalized groups and individuals. Analysis is based on ethnographic research into the policing of the street population in an inner London... Read More about 'PLAYING THE GAME': POWER, AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LONDON.