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Strip-searches are rarely a matter of public debate in the UK. Raw data – and the impact known from research in other jurisdictions – suggests though that they should be.
Discussions of racism in Britain centre around the experiences and traumas of Black people, but rarely on the perpetrators.
In the past year, black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
The UK government is granting sweeping powers to officers to search people without reasonable suspicion they’ve committed a crime.
Our findings on stop and account and vehicle stop checks potentially shine a light on why these powers may disproportionately affect black people.
In Scotland, researchers have been at the heart of police reforms – all very different to south of the border.
View from an expert in criminal justice – who also lives in one of the UK’s most deprived areas.
When it comes to riots, UK politicians need to acknowledge the real root causes, and address key issues such as failures in community policing.
Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
Stop and search contributes to marginalisation and has a corrosive impact on society.
After a series of high-profile resignations and allegations of misconduct, effective leadership of Scotland’s centralised police force is lacking.
Here’s a figure that deserves some attention: in the first year in which Scotland had a single police force, 8,000 stop searches were carried out by armed response officers, an average of 29 searches by…
As police inspector Nick Glynn commented earlier this week, most discussions on the subject of stop and search begin with something like, “stop and search is an essential crime fighting tool”. This prevents…
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Research Fellow in Criminology, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Research Fellow, Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER); PhD Candidate, Flinders University, Anglia Ruskin University
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PhD Candidate in Social Policy at the University of Kent, University of Kent
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Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law, University of Manchester
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Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Keele University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Dundee
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Public Sector Management, University of Liverpool
