‘Soft’ Policing in Rural Scotland
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2017)
‘Soft’ Policing in Rural Scotland. Policing, 11(2), 123-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw031
‘Soft’ policing focuses on the non-coercive elements of policing, typically community engagement, situated knowledge and negotiated order maintenance. Although soft policing a...
Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom.
Book Chapter
Yarwood, R., & Wooff, A. (2016)
Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom. In J. F. Donnemeyer (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology, (375-386). Taylor & Francis
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Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2015)
Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. Journal of Rural Studies, 39, 287-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.11.003
Rural policing, with a few notable exceptions, has been largely absent from the geographic and criminology literature. Yet, examining rural policing is important for revealing...
Treading the front-line: Tartanisation and Police Academic Partnerships
Journal Article
Martin, D., & Wooff, A. (2020)
Treading the front-line: Tartanisation and Police Academic Partnerships. Policing, 14(2), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay065
Recognized as an International Leader in the development of Police Academic Collaborations, the Scottish Institute of Police Research has had a key role in contributing to evi...
The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions.
Book
Skinns, L., Wooff, A. & Sprawson, A. (2015)
The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions. In Brunger, M., Tong, S. & Martin, D. (Eds.). Introduction to policing research : taking lessons from practice., 185-203. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISBN 9780415750400, 9781138013292, 9781315795294
This chapter examines key ethical dilemmas faced by social science researchers. It explores informed and voluntary consent, confidentiality and anonymity, and relationships in...
The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland.
Book
Wooff, A. (2016)
The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. In Donnermeyer, J. F. (Ed.). The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology.. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISBN 9781138799745, 9781315755885
This chapter seeks to provide a starting point for understanding anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) within a rural context, and how this provides important illumination of the...
Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland.
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2015)
Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. Scottish Justice Matters, 3(2), 19-20