Comment
Holding the police to account
Police corruption has traditionally been conceptualised as an abuse of power and authority by individual officers. Such definitions have tended to result in a restrictive understanding of 'rogue'...
Publication
Police expenditure, 1999-2009
Spending on the police in England and Wales grew by nearly 50 per cent between 1999 and 2009, according to a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Police expenditure 1999-2009...
News
Banged to rights
We hosted an interesting roundtable on May 17 in our seminar space in partnership with our colleagues at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR).
Dr Louise Westmarland of ICCCR presented her findings on research she conducted on police integrity. Among Louise's findings was that the police don't appear to think that hitting a suspect when he's down is anything to get too worked up about.
Download Louise's full research...