Safer Communities: Volume 14 Issue 4

Street pastors as substitutes for trust in the context of plural policing

Rachel Swann, Alison Green, Nick Johns, Luke Sloan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the work of the Street Pastors, a Christian organisation offering support to people in the night time economy (NTE), through the…

Policing “uncontrollable banshees”: factors influencing arrest decision making

Suzanne Young

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence police officers’ decision making when dealing with young women considered violent.

Grey areas and fine lines: negotiating operational independence in the era of the police and crime commissioner

Helen Wells

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the negotiation of boundaries of strategic vs operational responsibility between Chief Constables and Police Crime Commissioners (PCCs).

Assessing victim risk in cases of violent crime

Roxanne Khan, Victoria J Willan, Michelle Lowe, Phaedra Robinson, Matthew Brooks, May Irving, Rachel Stokes, Nicola Graham-Kevan, Marta Karwacka, Jo Bryce

There is a body of evidence that suggests a range of psychosocial characteristics demarcate certain adults to be at an elevated risk for victimisation. The purpose of this paper…

Editorial

Tim Bateman, Hannah Smithson