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Crofts, T. (2010). Stop and Search without Reasonable Suspicion: Is WA Becoming a Police State? Alternative Law Journal, 35(4), 199-202.
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In response to fear that violent crime is getting out of control, especially in entertainment districts, there is currently a…
Read moreDelsol, R. (2011). Stop and search – renewed powers, less accountability? Criminal Justice Matters, 86(1), 20-21.
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Discussion of PACE 30 years after the Brixton Riots in the UK. Includes discussions of how stop and search has…
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.
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Policing in England and Wales has become increasingly contested since the 1960s and has been subject to unprecedented levels of…
Read moreDelsol, R. & M. Shiner (eds) (2015). Stop and Search: the Anatomy of a Police Power. London: Palgrave Macmillan
effectivness, policing, stop and search, Trust
This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public. It explores…
Read moreBorooah, V. (2011). Racial Disparity in Police Stop and Searches in England and Wales. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 27(4), 453-473.
Data published by the United Kingdom’s Ministry for Justice clearly shows that, compared to persons who were White, members of…
Read moreBowling, B., & Phillips, C. (2007). Disproportionate and Discriminatory: Reviewing the Evidence on Police Stop and Search. Modern Law Review, 70(6), 936-961.
Criminal Justice, Police Powers, Racism Racial Discrimination, stop and search
Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains…
Read moreBowling, B. (2008). Zero policy: Critiques the commitment to ‘zero tolerance’ arguing that it sanctions police abuse of stop-and-search powers. Criminal Justice Matters, 71(1), 6-7.
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Discussion of 'zero tolerance' styles of policing into political agenda
Read moreBradford, B., & Topping, J. (2018). Now you see it, now you don’t: On the (in)visibility of police stop and search in Northern Ireland. Criminology and Criminal Justice (2018) (In Press), Criminology and Criminal Justice (2018) (In press).
stop and search; Police Service of Northern Ireland; police powers; social control
Police stop and search practices have been subject to voluminous debate for over forty years in the United Kingdom. Yet…
Read moreBradley, J. (2018). Is stop and search a deterrent? BMJ, K2122.
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Full letter: Torjesen says that Scotland was successful in reducing knife crime by adopting a public health approach and not…
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