Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive
Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on …

Anti-social behaviour recorded by police more than doubled early in the coronavirus
pandemic in England and Wales. This was a stark contrast to the steep falls in most types of …

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in
police custody. It addresses the implementation of the appropriate adult safeguard in respect …

Lorry drop Thursdays... is what we call it. Our work has increased because of the influx of
migrants over the last few years... the [motorway] service station staff have become good at …

Police officers have a great deal of discretion in any given police-citizen encounter (Rydberg
and Terrill in Police Q 13 (1): 92–120,). However, especially in use-of-force cases, it is a …

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 details …

Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a
case disposal decision is reached. It is also a largely hidden, but vital, part of police work …

Many young people who use drugs are structurally vulnerable to policing powers given the
ongoing criminalization of drug possession. Police authority limits and the expression of that …

Police legitimacy is a topic that has been widely researched and has been the subject of
many empirical studies in the last decades. This is not surprising since police legitimacy has …

Research on police discretion largely focuses on explaining the arrest disposition, while little
attention is directed to the range of nonarrest decisions within an encounter. The research …