From the introduction of policing into schools and hospitals to the often heard demand for greater police visibility in local communities, British society has witnessed a generation long growth in reliance on policing as the first policy and practice option in creating a safer society. This roundtable aims to challenge this default ‘policing first’ strategy and to ask whether policing is crowding out more innovative, just and effective policy and practice solutions to creating a safer society.
About Tim Hope
Tim Hope is Chair in Criminology at the University of Salford Manchester. Previously, he worked at the Home Office Research and Planning Unit (latterly as Principal Research Officer).
Tim has been Director of the ESRC Crime and Social Order Research Programme (1993-1998); honorary research fellow of the Quantitative Criminology Group, Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester. He is Scientific Advisor to the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, and Editorial Advisor for Safer Communities Criminal Justice Matters and the European Journal of Policing Studies.
He has also been an expert consultant to the UK Statistics Commission the Audit Commission, the National Reassurance and the Neighbourhood Policing programmes. He has authored over 100 research publications, both in the UK and also in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, and Portugal.
About Waqas Tufail
Dr Waqas Tufail is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. In this role he is pursuing his research interests concerning the policing of marginalised communities and the criminalisation of Muslim minorities. He completed his PhD, an ethnographic study of policing partnerships within three marginalised communities, in 2013 and has previously been employed as a Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Chester.
Waqas is also a founding member and joint convenor of the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP), a grassroots community group established in 2012 in Moss Side, Manchester. NPMP has been set up as an independent campaigning and advocacy organisation to educate, empower and organise the people of Manchester and the surrounding areas in response to police harassment, violence and racism.
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Trafalgar Square
London, WC2N 4JH
United Kingdom
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