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Here you can find over 150 posts tracking every major development in policing since 2011. You can trace the impact of staffing cuts, follow the debate about the role of modern policing and keep up with the latest in digitisation, use of drones & other innovations. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
Graeme Dixon on the under-reported links between domestic abuse and the misuse of prescribed medications.
Longitudinal study finds that custody-based liaison and diversion schemes reduce reoffending and improve mental health.
Just for Kids Law on vulnerable children excluded from school for behaviour linked to criminal exploitation.
The ‘hidden problem’ of child and adolescent to parent violence (C/APV) has seen a significant increase in the lockdown.
Advance shares the experiences of lockdown of 368 women in contact with the criminal justice system.
Revolving Doors Agency finds Black young adults are significantly more likely to be dragged into the criminal justice system for low-level offences.
The first report of the Police Foundation’s Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales
Policing the Pandemic is a youth-led study that provides a snapshot of young people’s views and experiences of policing during lockdown.
Crest Advisory challenges the assumption that the threat from county lines drug dealing has reduced during lockdown.
The Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill marks the largest overhaul of terrorist sentencing and monitoring in decades.
University of Kent research concludes that voluntary and mandatory polygraph testing increases the likelihood that individuals convicted or suspected of committing a sexual offence will reveal risk-relevant information.
