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Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation (2023)
Journal Article

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

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.

Group processes and interoperability: A longitudinal case study analysis of the UK's civil contingency response to Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London (2021)
Journal Article

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

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.

Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing (2021)
Journal Article

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.

How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities (2020)
Journal Article

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.

Policing football ‘risk’? A participant action research case study of a liaison-based approach to ‘public order’ (2016)
Journal Article

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’.