Understanding the Practice of Police Stops in Europe

Reforming Stop and Search in Scotland

By Kenny Ramsay   The creation of Police Scotland in 2013 was highly significant for policing in Scotland and the…

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Ausweispflicht per Corona-Verordnung? Verordnungsgeber missachten rechtsstaatliche Grenzen

By Jan Fährmann, Clemens Arzt, Hartmut Aden   Hektische Rechtsetzung in Krisenzeiten gefährdet den Rechtsstaat. Das gilt in einer Pandemiekrise…

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We spent seven years observing English police stop and search – here’s what we found

By Geoff Pearson, Mike Rowe   When the British politician Dawn Butler was stopped by police while travelling in a friend’s car…

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ID checks in France

Low threshold for initiating a control “Two North Africans in their twenties, dressed in summer clothes come towards us to…

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Stop and Search in Scotland- Change within change

In 2014, for the first time in Scotland stop and search became a matter of significant importance to the public,…

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The Stops on the Polish Independence Day

On the 11th of November 2017 nationalist and far right circles organized the March of Independence on the streets of…

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Police stop power and the digital turn / Politiets makt til å stoppe og den digitale vendingen

The police gaze can be defined as the way the police interpret situations, and it is based on their experience-based…

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Ethnic profiling and justice in Spain

Ethnic profiling is an issue that surrounds police stops nearly in all places where this police power has been subjected…

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Homelessness criminalization in Hungary

After the amendment of the Act II of 2012 on misdemeanours coming into force on 15 October 2018, rough sleeping…

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