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Lichtenberg, I. D., & Smith, A. (2001). How dangerous are routine police–citizen traffic stops?: A research note. Journal of Criminal Justice, 29(5), 419-428.
This note examined the danger of routine police–citizen traffic stops. The United States Supreme Court has assumed that traffic stops…
Read moreLaurent, O. (2011). Stop-and-search powers return. The British Journal of Photography, 158(7787), 12.
Controversial stop-and-search powers, previously used to photographers from taking pictures in public places, have been re-introduced by the UK HomeOffice.…
Read moreLangton, L., & Durose, M. R. (2013). Police behavior during traffic and street stops, 2011. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The data in this report were drawn from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) 2011 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), a…
Read moreJacobs, P. (2011). The use of section 60 powers in Brent: Considers the targeting of stop and search in the London borough. Criminal Justice Matters, 86(1), 22-23.
Considers the targetting of stop and search in a London Borough. Discussion piece.
Read moreFagan, J., & Geller, A. (2015). Following the script: Narratives of suspicion in Terry stops in street policing. U. Chi. L. Rev., 82, 51.
Regulation of Terry stops of pedestrians by police requires articulation of the reasonable and individualized bases of suspicion that motivate…
Read moreFagan, J. A., Geller, A., Davies, G. G., & West, V. (2010). Street stops and broken windows revisited: the demography and logic of proactive policing in a safe and changing city In: Rice SK, White MD, editors. Race and ethnicity in policing.
The contributions of order-maintenance policing and broken windows theory to New York City’s remarkable crime decline have been the subject…
Read moreEpp, C. R., Maynard-Moody, S., & Haider-Markel, D. P. (2014). Pulled over: How police stops define race and citizenship. University of Chicago Press.
In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers…
Read moreDixon, D. (2005). Why don’t the police stop crime? Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Criminology, 38(1), 4-24.
Several answers to the question ‘Why don’t the police stop crime?’ are considered. Police do stop some crime, although increasingly…
Read moreDelsol, R., & Shiner, M. (2006). Regulating stop and search: A challenge for police and community relations in England and Wales. Critical Criminology, 14(3), 241-263.
Policing in England and Wales has become increasingly contested since the 1960s and has been subject to unprecedented levels of…
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