The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World
Journal Article
Easton, M., de Paepe, J., Aston, L., & Clayton, E. (2024)
The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(1-2), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.5553/ejps.000018
In the ever-evolving landscape of law enforcement, the advent of the digital age has ushered in transformative shifts in police practices. These shifts have sparked scholarly ...
“Free Text Is Essentially the Enemy of What We’re Trying to Achieve”: The Framing of a National Vision for Delivering Digital Police Contact
Journal Article
Wells, H., Andrews, W., Clayton, E., Bradford, B., Aston, E. V., & O’Neill, M. (2024)
“Free Text Is Essentially the Enemy of What We’re Trying to Achieve”: The Framing of a National Vision for Delivering Digital Police Contact. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(1-2), 14-35. https://doi.org/10.5553/ejps.000017
Police organizations in England and Wales, as in many other contexts, are increasingly shifting crime reporting and other public-facing contact online. In this article, we exp...
Managerial Officers 3PO Briefing
Report
Wong, Y. N., Horgan, S., & Aston, E. (2024)
Managerial Officers 3PO Briefing. EPSRC
Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot
Presentation / Conference
Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Dougall, N., Murray, J., Aston, E., Jamieson, M., …McAuley, A. (2024, March)
Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. Presented at Drugs Research Network Webinar: ‘Drugs, Stigma and Emergency Services’, Online
This presentation explored selected quantitative and qualitative data from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. The data indicated that police officers in Scotla...
Scottish Drug Checking Project summary
Report
Carver, H., Falzon, D., Aston, E., Craik, V., Masterson, W., & Parkes, T. (2024)
Scottish Drug Checking Project summary. Corra Foundation
Planning and implementing community-based drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration using the consolidated framework for implementation research
Journal Article
Falzon, D., Carver, H., Masterton, W., Wallace, B., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., …Parkes, T. (2024)
Planning and implementing community-based drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration using the consolidated framework for implementation research. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 19(1), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-023-00590-7
Background: Drug checking services (DCS) provide harm reduction support and advice to individuals based on chemical analysis of submitted substances of concern. Whilst there a...
“It would really support the wider harm reduction agenda across the board”: A qualitative study of the potential impacts of drug checking service delivery in Scotland
Journal Article
Falzon, D., Parkes, T., Carver, H., Masterton, W., Wallace, B., Craik, V., …Aston, E. V. (2023)
“It would really support the wider harm reduction agenda across the board”: A qualitative study of the potential impacts of drug checking service delivery in Scotland. PLOS ONE, 18(12), Article e0292812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292812
Drug checking services (DCS) enable individuals to voluntarily submit a small amount of a substance for analysis, providing information about the content of the substance alon...
Police Stops: A Comparative Perspective on Governance
Book Chapter
Aston, E., Rowe, M., Fazekas, J., Lennon, G., & De Kimpe, S. (2023)
Police Stops: A Comparative Perspective on Governance. In E. Aston, S. De Kimpe, J. Fazekas, G. Lennon, & M. Rowe (Eds.), Governing Police Stops Across Europe (1-17). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41363-6_1
This chapter introduces the question of governance, as it relates to police officers’ use of their powers to stop members of the public, and mechanisms to ensure these practic...
Governing Police Stops Across Europe
Book
Aston, E., De Kimpe, S., Fazekas, J., Lennon, G., & Rowe, M. (Eds.)
(2023). Governing Police Stops Across Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41363-6
This book takes a critical and comparative approach to the analysis of the governance of police stops across Europe. It draws on an EU COST Action research network on Police S...
Conclusion: The Three Levels of Governance of Police Stops
Book Chapter
Lennon, G., De Kimpe, S., Aston, E., Rowe, M., & Fazekas, J. (2023)
Conclusion: The Three Levels of Governance of Police Stops. In E. Aston, S. De Kimpe, J. Fazekas, G. Lennon, & M. Rowe (Eds.), Governing Police Stops Across Europe (273-297). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41363-6_9
This chapter draws together the threads from across the book to argue that while the legal, social, political and historical context of policing and systems of governance and ...