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Parpworth, N. (2014). Allegations of the Discriminatory Use of Stop and Search Powers before the Courts: Some Recent English and American Experiences. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 87(2), 92-104.
stop and search; discrimination; official statistics; legal challenge; accountability
Statutory stop and search powers constitute an important weapon in the police’s armoury in the battle to prevent or detect…
Read morePeterson, A. (2013). Leanne Weber and Ben Bowling (eds), Stop and Search: Police Power in Global Context. Punishment & Society, 15(4), 429-431.
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Book Review of "Stop and Search: Police Power in Golabl Context" By Weber and Bowling
Read moreMiller, J., Bland, N., & Quinton, P. (2001). A Challenge for Police-Community Relations: Rethinking Stop and Search in England and Wales. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 9(1), 71-93.
disproportionality intelligence stop and search PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) police powers
This article presents research carried out as part of a government research programme looking at how police tactic of 'stop…
Read moreMiller, J., et al. (2008). Racism and police stops: Adapting US and British debates to continental Europe. European journal of criminology, 5(2), 161-191.
disproportionality, Ethnic profiling, Institutional racism, police stops racial profiling
Findings from an international research programme on police stops in Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain are reviewed in the context of…
Read moreMiller, J. (2010). Stop and Search in England: A Reformed Tactic or Business as Usual? The British Journal of Criminology, 50(5), 954-974.
disproportionality, police accountability, police reform, Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, stop and search
In 1999, the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry heavily criticized ethnic disparities in stop and search (‘disproportionality’), triggering a national reform effort…
Read moreMiller, J.; Arenas, L.; García-España, E. (2019). Regulating Police Stops in Spain: Assessing the Transportability of a Police Reform Model en International Journal of Police Science & Management. Forthcoming.
disproportionality, Ethnic profiling, evaluation, police reform, police stops
We study how the England and Wales Model (EWM) of police stop reforms was introduced into five Spanish police agencies.…
Read moreMoeckli, D. (2007). Stop and Search Under the Terrorism Act 2000: A Comment on R (Gillan) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis. Modern Law Review, 70(4), 659-670.
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This note begins with a description of the stop and search regime under theTerrorism Act 2000 that formed the background…
Read moreMorris, N. (2015). Stop and search: Nearly every police force is guilty of “racism”. Independent, 1-11.
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An analysis by The Independent has established that in 36 of the forces black people are being targeted more than…
Read moreMurray, K., & Harkin, D. (2017). Policing in Cool and Hot Climates: Legitimacy, Power and the Rise and Fall of Mass Stop and Search in Scotland. British Journal Of Criminology, 57(4), 885-905.
police accountability, police legitimacy, Scottish policing, stop and search
Prior to the amalgamation of Scotland’s eight police forces into Police Scotland in 2013 by the Scottish National Party government,…
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