‘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...
The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody
Journal Article
Wooff, A., & Skinns, L. (2017)
The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody. Punishment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474517722176
Police custody is a complex environment, where police officers, detainees and other staff interact in a number of different emotional, spatial and transformative ways. Utilisi...
Preliminary findings on police custody delivery in the twenty-first century: Is it ‘good’ enough?
Journal Article
Skinns, L., Wooff, A., & Sprawson, A. (2015)
Preliminary findings on police custody delivery in the twenty-first century: Is it ‘good’ enough?. Policing and Society, 27(4), 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1058377
Since the 1980s, police custody in England and Wales has seen the civilianisation and privatisation of key roles formerly performed by police officers and changes to how polic...
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...