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Qureshi, F. (2007). The impact of extended police stop and search powers under the UK Criminal Justice Act 2003. Policing, 30(3), 466-483.
Arrest, Criminal Justice, Ethnic groups, Laws and legislation, police, United Kingdom
The introduction of the UK's Criminal Justice Act (CJA) 2003 extended police stop and search powers. It allowed officers to…
Read moreQureshi, F. (2012). Police Stop and Search in a Southern English County. The Police Journal, 1-18.
This article looks at recorded Stop and Search activity in a southern English county from April 2003 to March 2006.…
Read moreRenauer, B. C. (2012). Neighborhood variation in police stops and searches: A test of consensus and conflict perspectives. Police quarterly, 15(3), 219-240.
conflict theory, racial profiling, racial threat, social conditioning
This study examines consensus and conflict approaches to explaining police stop and search rates in 94 neighborhoods. Police deployment, racial…
Read moreNawaz, A., & Tankebe, J. (2018). Tracking Procedural Justice in Stop and Search Encounters: Coding Evidence from Body-Worn Video Cameras. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, 2(3), 139-163.
Procedural justice . Tracking . Body-worn video . Stop and search . Police citizen encounters
To what extent do police stop-and-search practices, as captured on officers’ body-worn video cameras, adhere to key dimensions of procedural…
Read moreNorris, C., Fielding, N., Kemp, C., & Fielding, J. (1992). Black and blue: An analysis of the influence of race on being stopped by the police. British Journal of Sociology, 207-224.
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This article addresses the debate over the disproportionate representation of black people in the criminal justice system, with particular reference…
Read moreNovich, M., & Hunt, G. (2017). “Get off me”: Perceptions of disrespectful police behaviour among ethnic minority youth gang members. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 24(3), 248-255. doi:10.1080/09687637.2016.1239697
drug-dealing gang members, police abuse of force, police interactions, procedural justice, Gangs, police
Recent media accounts have highlighted issues of use and abuse of police force and policing practices targeted at ethnic minorities…
Read moreOlsen, Hilgunn (2017) Open drug scenes and police strategies in Oslo, Norway, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 18:2, 141-156, DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2017.1388028
drug policy, dual-track policy, harm reduction, illicit drugs, open drug scene, Police strategies
As part of her ongoing PhD-project, Hilgunn Olsen has looked into differences in police strategies related to open drug scenes…
Read moreO’Neill, M. (2015). The case for the acceptable ‘other’: The impact of partnerships, pcsos, and neighbourhood policing on diversity in policing. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 9(1), 77-88.
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Policing in England and Wales has experienced several significant events and developments since the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.…
Read moreParmar, A. (2011). Stop and search in London: Counter-terrorist or counter-productive? Policing and Society, 21(4), 369-382.
Asian Muslims, counter-terrorist, criminalising, policing, stop and search
The principle of ‘reasonable suspicion’ aims to prevent the abuse of the police power to stop, search and arrest and…
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