Safer Communities: Volume 21 Issue 2

Restoring public confidence through the delivery of improved community policing in Rackhamshire

Carina O’Reilly, Winifred Agnew-Pauley, Sam Lundrigan

Neighbourhood policing is central to supporting public confidence in England and Wales. However, the delivery of neighbourhood policing models is increasingly fragmented and under…

University students’ experiences of recreational class a drug taking and perspectives on personal, social and health education (PSHE) drug education

Hannah May Scott, Sandy Oliver

Research suggests that student drug use is substantially higher than that of the general population and while the UK Government’s current Drug Strategy emphasises the importance…

Racial profiling and Section 163 traffic stops: is there cause for concern?

Julie Rachel Adams-Guppy, Paul Simpson

The paper aims to examine the issue of potential disproportionality and racial profiling in s.163 traffic stops under the Road Traffic Act 1988, in light of recent media attention…

The impact of the pandemic on probation: lessons for the future

Jake Phillips

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which probation services responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and to consider what this means for the future of probation.

Community policing experience, public trust in the police, citizens’ psychological safety and community well-being in Ghana

Stewart Selase Hevi, Gifty Enyonam Ketemepi, Caroline Dorkoo, Akorfa Wuttor

This paper aims to investigate how community policing experience elicits public trust in the police, citizens’ psychological safety and community well-being in Ghana.

The link between dangerous driving and other criminal behaviour: a scoping review

Lyndel Bates, Marina Alexander, Julianne Webster

This paper aims to explore the link between dangerous driving and other criminal behaviour.