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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
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.

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.