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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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..

'PLAYING THE GAME': POWER, AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LONDON (2020)
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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.

Patterns of ‘Disorder’ During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization (2020)
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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.

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

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..

Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011 (2019)
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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 value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden (2018)
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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.

When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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’.

Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999) (2015)
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As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated. Our Revisiting the Classics series aims to bring to... Read More about Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999).

Crowdedness Mediates the Effect of Social Identification on Positive Emotion in a Crowd: A Survey of Two Crowd Events (2013)
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Exposure to crowding is said to be aversive, yet people also seek out and enjoy crowded situations. We surveyed participants at two crowd events to test the prediction of self-categorization theory that variable emotional responses to crowding are a... Read More about Crowdedness Mediates the Effect of Social Identification on Positive Emotion in a Crowd: A Survey of Two Crowd Events.

Advances in Liaison Based Public Order Policing in England: Human Rights and Negotiating the Management of Protest? (2013)
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This article provides further analysis of an emerging ‘liaison’ based approach to the policing of public order in England and Wales (Gorringe, H., Stott, C. and Rosie, M. (2012). ‘Dialogue Police, Decision Making, and the Management of Public Order D... Read More about Advances in Liaison Based Public Order Policing in England: Human Rights and Negotiating the Management of Protest?.